My meager results from the 2m Fall Sprint. I thought activity was down, that
being said, the fall sprints are historically not the most popular VHF+ events.
Many "big guns" that I typically hear or work were absent. Things have
certainly changed in the past 5 years on VHF+. In the recent past, I found a
SSB spike in activity around 8-9pm when WA4NJP calls his 2m net on 144.210 and
net participants tune the band to work sprint QSO's. I think I only worked one
of those ops. I refused to give in to the FT8 VHF+ pandemic (yes, you read
that correctly) and operated the first hour and a quarter exclusively on SSB
netting a grand total of 6 QSO's in that time frame. After that I spent a good
20 minutes at the top of each hour on SSB and only netted one more SSB QSO. I
did not notice any significant enhanced propagation.
Thanks to the sponsor for continuing the support for weak signal VHF+ activity.
144 MHz Fall Sprint - 2023
Call: K3DNE
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: SC
Operating Time (hrs): 3.75
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 24, Mults = 16, Total Score = 384
Club: Swamp Fox Contest Group
Elecraft K3S, Kuhne DB6NT transverter, Lunar Link Amp (750w digital, 1+KW SSB),
12 element M2 at 47ft.
73
Ed K3DNE
EM94ae
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