I want to thank everyone who supplied information back in Feb and March on
stations who have worked all lower 48 states on 2 meters terrestrial, or who
are close. I used the information gathered from your e-mails to make a
presentation at last week’s CS VHF Conference. That presentation generated
still more info, some of which were from contemporaries of VHF pioneers on
2-meters. More info was also generated as a result of W3ZZ’s wonderful write-up
of the subject in his July, 2008 World Above 50 MHz column. In all, 50 or more
people have provided some info.
I will shortly be adding this new material into a revised Excel file and
work-up of the topic. If anyone knows of other stations at 48 states
terrestrial, or who are close (down to 40 states), please let me know. Here are
the 11 people that I know who have worked the continental US on 2 meters “the
hard way”, via terrestrial means only:
W0SD SD Pre-grid; (EN13)
K5CM OK Pre-grid; (EM25)
W0EMS NE Pre-grid; (EN11)
K0ALL ND EN16
K5UR AR EM35
W0RRY / K5BXG OK EM26
W5ZN (as WB5IGF) AR EM45
WQ0P KS EM29
W7XU SD EN13
N0QJM SD EN13
KM0T IA EN13
Here are others who are known to be close (down to 45 states, but I am keeping
track of anyone at 40 + states):
K0MQS IA EN31 Missing ID?
K5SW OK EM25 Missing OR
K9HMB IL EN52 Missing a 7?
W9UD IL EN41 Missing CA
WB0DGF NE EN10 Missing VT
N0LL KS EM09 Missing ME
W0RLI MN EN34 CA, NV
KM0A MO EM48 CA, WA
N0UK MN EN34jv CA, WA
N0JK KS EM17 ME, RI
K2DRH IL EN41 CA, OR, WA
W0RT KS EN27 OR, VT, RI
W0FY MO EM48 CA, OR, WA
KW0A MO EM48 CA, OR, DE
N9LR IL EN50du CA, OR, WA
KA9CFD IL EN40om CA, OR, WA
I also am looking for anyone on either coast with significant state totals
terrestrially. Anyone at 18 or more states in the West Coast or Western states;
and anyone at 30 or more states from the North-East or South-East, I want to
hear from you! If you know of anybody else that may be close to these totals on
MS, tropo, Au, or Es, or simple brute force, please let me know that, too.
On all info reports, the following would be of great help:
- Call-sign
- State
- Grid
- # of States worked terrestrially
- Time period of activity / completion
- Any other interesting historical tid-bits or info
Thanks for all the info received so far.
Kevin
W9GKA
EM58
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