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[VHFcontesting] 6m "Fall" Sprint: Different in IL/WI

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Subject: [VHFcontesting] 6m "Fall" Sprint: Different in IL/WI
From: John_JK Kalenowsky_K9JK <k9jk73@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:30:44 -0500
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Pete, N6ZE wrote:

> No 6m Sprinting in SoCal: not even a Crawl:
> 
> 2Q 1G on 6m.

And Bruce, KI7JA replied:

> Not much here in CN85 either, but arenb these sprints scored on distance?
> Isnbt that why we need to give our 6 digit grids, or am I wrong?  Everyone
> up here was only giving 4 digit grids.

I guess I shouldn't complain about making 'only' 48 QSOs from my rover (the 
CoROVERolla), then. Sorry to hear that activity was so dismal for Pete in SoCal 
and for Bruce in Oregon.

While it does not appear that we had any sporadic-E here in the Chicago area, 
several of us (me included) were able to complete QSOs with VE3CRU/R from 
FN04na, a path of approx. 750 km. Local consensus is that the propagation was 
meteor scatter but it must have been a very extended burn or possibly multiple 
almost simultaneous burns since it seemed to me that Bill's signal was in there 
and quite solidly copiable for several minutes as opposed to the typical short 
(but repeated) path enhancements more commonly occurring in meteor showers. I 
also experienced what I believe were a couple of somewhat enhanced Tropo 
contacts with 5 contact paths on the order of 300 km and another at about 230 
km. If anyone is interested in an extended report, I posted to the Badger 
Contesters e-mail reflector, direct link: 
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/badgercontesters/2013q3/004601.html.

To Bruce's question...the "Fall" Sprints are sponsored by the Southeast VHF 
Society and operate differently from the "Spring" Sprints, which are sponsored 
by the Central States VHF Society, where I WAS the 'host'/chairperson/primary 
worker bee (I have stepped down and the chair has been passed to another member 
of the CSVHFS). The "Fall" Sprints use distance scoring ONLY for the Microwave 
event, while the "Spring" Sprints were using it for ALL 5 of the events, in 
part as an attempt to get VHFers aware of Grid6s and comfortable with 
exchanging them.

How was the activity/propagation in other parts of the country?

73, JK, K9JK/R


                                          
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