ARRL June VHF Contest - 2020
Call: NC6K
Operator(s): NC6K
Station: NC6K
Class: SO 3Band HP
QTH: SDG
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 140 60
2: 19 3
222:
432: 7 2
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 166 65 Total Score = 11,245
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
I'll just use my template from past ARRL VHF contests: "Conditions were
awful in DM13 again this year, but I stayed at it, hoping things would
improve."
Seriously, this was one of the worst years for Es that I can remember. For some
reason, the weekend of this contest always coincides with practically no
sustained Sporadic E. We had an opening Saturday evening for about an hour to
the PNW and some very in-and-out openings Sunday to the FN grids and Hawaii
(lasted less than 10 minutes and no QSOs).
To add insult to injury, my friends east of the Continental Divide shared their
misery at having to deal with extremely full waterfalls that made it hard to
find an open spot. I spent most of the contest watching the Blue Screen of
Death, which in this case was the empty waterfall. At least there were a few
dozen locals to decode endlessly. I went to the 6 Meter FT4 segment a few times,
but there was pretty much nothing there, and I did spend some time on CW, SSB
and FM, but there was also very little going on. With conditions like we had,
FT4 would probably have been better, but no one seemed to move from the FT8
segment.
As Brooklyn Dodger fans used to say, "Wait til next year". I'm sure
conditions will be so much better. /sarc
Thanks for the QSOs.
73 de NC6K
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