Wow ...
Congratulations on your efforts.
You all had great signals. I was hearing you off the side and off the
back of the yagis throughout the contest.
I still think 1987 was better. I do agree that the conditions were
outstanding Saturday evening.
I compared my 1987 log with 2003. In 1987 I was new on 6 Meters and was
actively pursuing QSO's by calling CQ as well as search and pouncing.
I made 150+ Q's in 94 grids that Saturday evening. All on 125 watts and
a 5 Element 1/4 wave spaced Quad.
This year on 6 Meters I was running about 80 watts to a 3 element
Cushcraft. This year I was just sat back and searched and pounced. I
did work just about everyone I heard calling CQ. This year I had 105
Qs in 78 Grids Saturday evening.
The big difference was that in 1987, Sunday morning at 7:00AM it opened
back up and never did shut down for the rest of the contest. I worked
11 new grids the final hour. I had about 300 Qs and 142 grids when it
was over. In addition, the coast to coast 2 Meter Es opening has never
occurred again down here.
Hope you are going to make it up to HamCom. If you are, I will be at
the SWOT Flea Market table promoting.
73's
Art
--- George Fremin III <geoiii@kkn.net> wrote:
> Yes - that would be nice - but from a sheer QSO count this year was
> better than 1987 for us since we were able to get over 1000 contacts
> by midnight Saturday night on six meters and no one in 1987 made it
> to
> 1000 contacts on six meters.
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