Hi Dave
I was just mentioning Q65 or JT65 with W8RU, as a way to improve our
range. Lets try something next Tuesday. Dave, you could be in a
fantastic position to develop fantastic scores if you can tap into a
few more NE contacts. ( Bigger tower?) I know that you can work a few in
Connecticut, so you are awfully close. You can work so many grids from
your spot if there were only activity there. K1RZ and K1RA have done
some fantastic scores in sprints from the DC area. I am on the NE edge
of the activity and my antenna only moves from South out to the West
typically. There is nothing much to work in the other direction. Many
years ago there was a little activity in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,
but now it is empty on 144 and the higher bands. VE1SKY is on 144 digi
modes. There is ZERO 222 activity. KV1J gets on from FN44 and K1DY is
active in FN54. That is about it for routine contacts up NE. So the
answer is to build up activity. We all need to become 222 preachers!
Thanks for being on 222 MHz. Why are no VE1s on 222? The VE2s and VE3s
are there.
73
Dave K1WHS
On 4/20/2023 9:29 AM, k3sk@buckwalter.co wrote:
I had a decent night working the 222 Sprint. I logged 20 contacts in 14
Grids. For you guys up there in the middle of 222 Land (New England) that's
a lot of contacts down here in southern Virginia. I worked 2-SSB, 1-CW,
1-FM and the remainder were FT8. I also heard several others that just
faded away and never heard again. I tried unsuccessfully MSK with W5EME.
Band conditions were "variable" at best. VE3NS went from -17 to +1 in
about 5 seconds. Maybe some of us should give Q65 a try to see how well
it does for terrestrial. Maybe one of the regular Tuesday nights I'll put
out some calls in that mode.
de K3SK
FM07th
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