CQ Worldwide VHF Contest
Call: VE3SMA
Operator(s): VE3RSA VE3SMA
Station: VE3SMA
Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: Muskoka, ON
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 95 56
2: 30 17
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Total: 125 73 Total Score = 11,315
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
On Friday we (Tom, VE3RSA and I) set up 100 W on 2m with 7 elements at 18 ft and
100 W on 6m with 3 elements at about 24 ft. Tom is a neophyte VHF operator but
an experienced HF contester. We did HF contests together at VE3UOT in the
early 80's so it was great to run another contest with him !
The contest went reasonably well, with about twice last year's score, though
shy of the 2010 score from the same location. 6m was open most of the time,
though mostly not with extremely strong signals - a pretty good introduction to
the band for Tom. 2m was a tough slog all the time (as usual from FN05), though
big stations in FN31 and FM19 were worked without much trouble (both in the
vicinity of 750 km), so I am sure more could have been done had activity been
there, or if we had had more skeds.
As far as 6m dx goes we got a ZF (who answered my CW CQ) and FOUR (!) EA8
stations. For most of the contest IL18 was the grid with which we had the most
6m QSOs. FN03 just snuck past IL18 in the last hour ! Within North America,
there was a pretty good spread of sporadic E openings, to VE1, VO1, various
parts of W4/W5 and a few W0 stations, but it wasn't open to the west much. A
couple of DM grids were heard but not worked.
Every station heard or worked was over 100 km away (with one possible
exception). We made just two QSOs with stations to the north of us, VA3PC
(FN06) on 6m and VA3ELE (FN07) on 2m. K2QO/R takes the prize for the
most-worked station, with a total of 8 QSOs on the two bands, in 5 grids.
73,
Steve VE3SMA
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