I never heard K8GP here in EN50. I heard a station in EN32, another in
EM66 and W3SO in FN00, all on 144 MHz, but couldn't work any of them.
Conditions seemed as bad as I've ever heard them, with 432 being really
difficult - much more so than in the June and August contests. I'm pretty
sure my antenna is fine - SWR is 1.1 and the received noise level is the
same as always.
Guess it just wasn't my weekend!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, steve d wrote:
> I messed up the adress the first time and sent this again as a forwarded
> message to the group but somehow it went through as an attatchment HI. SO..
> hopefully this time around it gets in.
>
> Well I wrapped things up today in EN80. I got out to the site around noon
> and stayed until 4pm. The bands were pretty bad today. I struggled to make a
> few contacts - all of them were relatively local. The furthest was K8GP in
> FM08. 144 and 432 were relatively easy (432 was real weak, but still easy)..
> then when I hit 6m the whole game changed. I could barely hear K8GP. I ended
> up calling one of their ops on 144 to have the 6m op try to pick me out of
> the noise HI. It worked, it took some time but it worked.
>
> I heard some strange propogation from K5QE on 6 - it was like a cross between
> MS and tropo. The signal was real weak and only there occasionally. Several
> times there was a warbling tone too - as you would expect from tropo. I never
> did get through.
>
> Pictures (note, there are two sub albums - day 1 and day 2):
> http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o117/KC8QVO/2007%20September%20ARRL%20VHF%20contest/
>
> 73's and thanks for those that hung in there to get the QSO's through!
> Steve, KC8QVO
>
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