ARRL June VHF QSO Party
Call: NV4B/5
Operator(s): NV4B
Station: NV4B/5
Class: Single Op Port QRP
QTH: MS (EM54vs)
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 23 17
2: 6 4
222:
432: 3 1
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 32 22 Total Score = 770
Club:
Comments:
I operated again this year from Woodall Mountain, Mississippi's highest point.
I started late, mainly because I spent an hour tracking down a bad run of coax
on my 2m/432 antenna, and that may have cost me, as another EM54 op told me
there was a decent opening on 6m near the start. I spent a total of 9 hours on
the mountain. I operated for 5 hours on Saturday. Thunderstorms held me off
Sunday morning, and I didn't return until noon, and operated for another 4
hours until I was run off by weather again.
6m never really opened up with wall-to-wall signals; there were only a few
brief sporadic-E openings that definitely lived up to their name. Most were to
the Four Corners region, although there was an opening to south Florida and Cuba
on Saturday afternoon. I managed to work two COs for my only DX contacts of the
contest. I briefly heard a station in Florida, and around the same time,
momentarily heard a station in FN12. I did hear a handful of stations via
double-hop; a couple of W6's Saturday, and a W7 in Oregon on Sunday afternoon,
but my QRP signal wasn't enough to QSO any of these. In general, I was able to
work about half of the stations I heard.
It was fun nonetheless, and I might go back for CQWW VHF. Hopefully conditions
will be better!
Station: Yaesu FT-817ND at <5W
6m antenna: MFJ-1762 3-el
2m/432 antenna: Cushcraft A270-10S 5-el/5-el
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