Things were a bit slow on 222 last night, when compared to last week.
One look at the Hepburn map and depression could set in. The northeast
had no tropo enhancement at all. There was some minor enhancement down
south, but the bands are always doing something in the South! Poor
conditions did not matter much as there was quite a bit of activity and
long haul contacts were still very possible. One of my CQs was answered
by KO4YC who is just north of Richmond, VA and over 500 miles distant.
His signal was really great at S5 on CW.
There is some activity in the southeast and a bit in the midwest. AJ6T
is banging away on 222 from the Nashville area with all of ten watts.
N1GC was also on along with W5EME in LA, and WG8S in EM64. I think AA9MY
was in there too. I worked about the same lineup as WZ1V. Out west,
the only station heard was W9KXI in FN12. There were some severe T
storms around Toronto and that drove away the activity. KR1ST and NZ3M
were worked on FT8. AJ6T heard me on meteor scatter on the FT8 freq.
This coming weekend is the ARRL September VHF contest weekend. I have
no 144 antennas, so it looks like I might be on just 222 and 432 if I am
lucky. I was hoping to work on the 432 problems today, but the winds
were too high and I did not feel comfortable trying to climb on such a
windy day. I ordered some new rotators for 432, but they are back
ordered apparently.
Good luck to all his weekend. A big Thank you to all who made it on for
the 222 Activity Evening as well. It sure is fun to work stations on
that band!
73
dave K1WHS
On 9/8/2021 10:01 AM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote:
Good to catch you last night Alex, activity
was about average here, 14 in the log:
K1WHS FN43, WA1T FN43, KC2KAE FN20, N2GHR FN30,
N2SLO FN30, K3GNC FN20, K1PXE FN31, VE2XX FN25,
WA2ONK FN20, KR1ST FN21, KO4YC FM17, W9KXI FN12,
NZ3M FN10, and WA3NUF FN20.
It was fun to operate one of my bands that still works.
My 2M station is presently hobbled down to 140 Watts,
so won't be spending a lot of time on it this weekend.
73 Ron WZ1V, FN31rh
----- Original Message -----
From: alex@kr1st.com
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:59:44 -0400
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] Tuesday means 222 night!
SSB: K1PXE, N2GHR, WZ1V
FT8: NZ3M, K1WHS, KO4YC, W9KXI
A pretty good catch tonight! K1WHS and KO4YC are at the same distance
from me (260+ miles), but I worked Cornell on the back of my beam, so
that was the best DX for the night I'd say. :)
73,
--Alex KR1ST
On 2021-09-07 10:07, David Olean wrote:
Hi folks,
It is Tuesday and that means 222ctivity Night.
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