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[VHFcontesting] 222 MHz Activity Evening Summary

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Subject: [VHFcontesting] 222 MHz Activity Evening Summary
From: David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:48:26 -0400
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All I can say is that the 222 MHz Activity Committee is on the war path. They took one look at the activity levels this evening and have lowered the boom. Unfortunately the boom descended on me and i am doing penance for the lousy showing this evening. I only worked about 14 different stations and it was not for lack of trying on my part. Both Good Buddy Ron, WZ1V and I tried to work K3SK and no one completed a contact. Apparently a high noise level on the FM07 end made copy difficult on the southern end.  WZ1V copied K3SK on FT8 and Q65. I copied K3SK extremely well on MSK-144, getting several nice bursts in a ten minute period, but no QSO was made by anyone in New England with K3SK.  N1JEZ was also listening.  By the time I tried a sked with W9KXI,  Cousin Al had left the building and I never got a chance there.  I heard no one on Long Island, and very few in the NY metro area as well. WA2LTM and WB2ONA were there with pretty good signals.  I caught WB2VVV in his northern QTH near Waterville Valley, NH.  I did manage to work WA3EOQ, but signals were weak. Howard was complaining about weak signals, and they were weak, but I could copy him most of the time.  I had to turn my array a bit South to minimize a power line noise source and then elevate the antenna about 3 degrees to drop the noise floor some more.  WA3EOQ is at 242.5 degrees and I had S6 line noise at 249 degrees! It made life difficult, but we managed a contact.

The 222 MHz Activity Committee has required me to look into providing Polish Beer to any and all 222 MHz operators who show up at the CT NEWS VHF Conference in May.  The big beer give away will be on Friday night in the hospitality area. Now I just have to find a place that sells Polish beer. My local beer store has both Bud and Bud Lite.  The 222 MHz Activity Committee has specified only Polish beer.

73

Dave K1WHS


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