ARRL January VHF Contest
Call: W0ETT
Operator(s): W0ETT
Station: W0ETT
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: co
Operating Time (hrs): 3
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 15 7
2: 7 3
222:
432: 1 1
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 23 11 Total Score = 264
Club: Grand Mesa Contesters of Colorado
Comments:
Very quiet VHF contest if you are only using the traditional ham modes of SSB
and CW. Put an hour on Saturday and worked 3 stations, and was active most of
Sunday but no big surge of VHF ops or QSOs. Most intersting contacts were with
the SOTA guys on mountain tops: WG0AT and K0NR; Rover AB0YM, and WD0BQM in DN81
on CW for nice DX QSO on 2m.
Used to work about 60- 70 QSOs in the January VHF test but reportedly many VHF
ops have shifted over to FT8 or upgraded and gone to HF. I stopped roving to
"rare" grids when QSO count dropped dramatically a year or two ago,
and gave away my rover antennas. Hope the contest administrators come up with a
plan to encourage more traditional SSB and CW QSOs instead of just letting VHF
tests become FT8 contests all on one frequency.
73 Ken, W0ETT
rig: IC756pro3 and 6m amp 450w to 7 el M2 at 65'
IC 910 with 100w on 2m 2' to 9 el m2 at 52' and 50w on 432
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