ARRL September VHF QSO Party
Call: N9DG
Operator(s): N9DG
Station: N9DG
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: EN53
Operating Time (hrs): 26
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 98 47
2: 123 43
222: 44 25
432: 62 26
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 327 141 Total Score = 61,053
Club: Badger Contesters
Comments:
Well this one was considerably better than the June contest here. Conditions
overall were better, though not particularly great tropo-wise here. At the open
of the contest I was hearing some 2M stuff out of a few FN0x grids but could not
get their attention. On 222 and 432 the conditions seemed very normal, not bad,
but not enhanced either. Frustratingly I could hear some to my east getting into
some tropo to the Northeast that I simply wasn?t hearing ? but then that?s life
on the VHF+ weak signal bands.
With the very dry conditions here I noticed that nonspecific noise in general
was noticeably higher than normal. During the Sunday afternoon doldrums all that
noise had effectively masked the weaker stations. I also noted rather loud
S5-ish Sun noise on 2M for both Saturday evening?s sunset and Sunday morning?s
sunrise. I don?t usually hear Sun noise that pronounced.
AU and Es, what can I say, I did manage to pick up a number of extra grids and
Q?s that I would not have otherwise thanks to both of those events. The AU was
not nearly as strong as June though, the Sunday evening 6M E was only for a
couple of hours and rather limited geographically. I too had a really hard time
getting the attention of many of those loud 4 land signals on 6M during this Es
opening. That was indeed a bit strange.
So overall I?m pretty happy with my results for this one.
Duane
N9DG
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