Yes ! Congrats Dave !
73 Ron WZ1V
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Stefanik <n1dpmfred@gmail.com>
To: K3SK@buckwalter.co
Cc: VHF Contesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>, NEWS Reflector
<newsvhf@mailman.qth.net>, Ron Klimas <wz1v@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:43:54 -0400
Subject: Re: [NEWSVHF] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies
> Very nice score Dave!
> 73
> Fred
> K1FMS
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 3:38 PM Dave via NEWSVHF <newsvhf@mailman.qthnet>
> wrote:
>
> > Like they say LOCATION-LOCATION-LOCATION.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you want to place in the Top 10 nation-wide in a VHF contest, you have
> > to
> > live in the NorthEast. Although this was a decent contest and I hit my
> > all-time highest score ever in 45 years of VHF contesting, I'm sure by the
> > rummers I've heard, the multi-band guys in New England cleaned up again.
> > Out here in the boonies of south-central Virginia working nearly 30 QSOs on
> > 222 & 432 is monumental. However, it doesn't help much against stations
> > that are located 100 to 200 miles from 3 to 4 times as many on those same
> > bands. Not to mention all the close-in 1296 and up stations in those
> > over-populated home-owner association run neighborhoods of the NE. Even
> > with my first ever 6-digit score, it would have been much better had there
> > been any enhanced propagation on the 2m and up bands. Sporadic E
> > propagation on 6 meters was great most of the contest, with a European
> > opening in the beginning hours.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Band QSO Grid
> >
> >
> >
> > 50M 265 156
> >
> > 144M 102 36
> >
> > 222M 28 17
> >
> > 432M 28 18
> >
> > 1.2G 3 3
> >
> >
> >
> > Total 426 230
> >
> >
> >
> > Score: 112,240
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > de K3SK
> >
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