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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