Hi Marshall,
You struck a couple of bells in your message, so hear is my story. HI HI.
First, DM82. I lived in DM82 for a couple of years and was there during the
big coast-to-coast 2m double hop opening that occurred during the 1987 June VHF
QSO Party. I was in the middle and worked W6s simultaneously with W4s. It was
mayhem. I got all W4 states in that opening. I also worked 6m VUCC running just
10 watts to a 4 element beam that was leaning up against the garage.
My best single hop sporadic E DX is from here to W0GR in EM38, 1597 miles.
I have one EME SSB contact, one that was made with the Stanford Dish, WA6LET,
on 2m in 1975.
73,
Paul, K7CW
--- On Sun, 8/16/09, Marshall Williams <k5qe@sabinenet.com> wrote:
From: Marshall Williams <k5qe@sabinenet.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] ssb question?
To: VHFcontesting@contesting.com
Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 1:39 PM
Hello everyone....I hate to get involved in these "mine is bigger than
yours" contests. But, here goes.....My personal best is 1604 miles from
EM31 to KY1K in FN54. This happened during an intense Es opening
7/6/04. Art was somewhat amazed to find out that I was in Texas. I was
pretty stoked too, as ME was a new state for me on 2M. I worked 4 new
states in the New England area that day. What a day!!!!!
I am SURE that there are other SSB contacts that will exceed this. I
have made a few SSB contacts off the moon, one to Russia and one to
Mississippi at 150 miles!!! The really big stations can work SSB off
the moon almost any day. I guess what I am trying to say is that one
should focus on what is the longest SSB contact that was made on a given
mode on a given band. Different modes/bands will yield different "long
distance" contacts.
The contact to DM82 is undoubtedly a good one. I just looked on the map
and I have never work DM82....so I am jealous....HI HI. And I am a LOT
closer to DM82 than you are......Congratulations on that one....
73 Marshall K5QE
GeorgeF. wrote:
>I don't know what the record for SSB on 2mtrs is but my personal best is
>working W5WRL in DM82 from EL99 (1276 miles). Was running 100 watts and a
>6 element yagi at only 20'. My personal best on 432SSB is WW2R in EL13
>from EL99 (971 miles) on 50 watts and an 11 element yagi at about 23'.
>
>George - KI4FIA
>http://www.MilAirComms.com/shack.html ; <-- Shack Pictures.
>
>At 04:45 PM 8/14/2009 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>>what is the record for ssb? this past july29,2009 i made 1008.5mi from
>>fn02 into em26(w6zi) with 150 and a 13b2. The best opening i have yet to
>>be involved in.
>>
>>dave-n2rhl
>>
>>
>>
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