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Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies

To: "Fred Stefanik" <n1dpmfred@gmail.com>, K3SK@buckwalter.co
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies
From: "Ron Klimas WZ1V" <wz1v@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-to: wz1v@sbcglobal.net
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:59:43 -0400
List-post: <mailto:vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
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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