Yes, stations in the south can win the June contest (besides W5ZN, for example
K5TR in TX). I even came in 2nd place high power in 2023 with my small station
(5 elements on 6m, 9 elements on 2m, 18 elements/100 w on 70 cm).
The key is to work a LOT of stations on 6m. That is now a lot harder with
everyone refusing to move off 50313. FT8 rate is just too sloooow when
conditions are good.
Around here I usually don't work my own grid on 2m and up.
Tor N4OGW EM53
On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 07:48:10 AM CDT, <w5znjoel@gmail.com> wrote:
NOT necessarily Dave !!!!!! 😊
I don't live in the northeast and when I competitively participated in the June
VHF contest I consistently placed in the top 10, actually taking 1st place in
single op high power three times, once as WB5IGF and twice as W5ZN.
Its about strategy! Sure, you northeast guys can work more Q's but I can
acquire more multipliers (grids!). The northeast does have a significant
(exponential?) QSO advantage, though.
Congrats on a very nice score and effort. Looks great!!
73 Joel W5ZN
-----Original Message-----
From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+w5znjoel=gmail.com@contesting.com>
On Behalf Of David R Buckwalter via VHFcontesting
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2025 2:38 PM
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com; newsvhf@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [VHFcontesting] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies
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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