June 1987 was awsome from EM65( I operated portable from this grid before I
found a place to buy and move up here). Worked CT4KQ on 6. In June 1992
worked VE4 and South Dakota on 2m E- skip.Sorry I miised the opening the
other night. Looking for good conditions this June!
Joe W4AAB
----- Original Message -----
From: Duane Grotophorst <n9dg@yahoo.com>
To: Zack Widup <w9sz@prairienet.org>; <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] all night 6M Es opening
>
> I remember that June 1992 VHF QSOP was really good on
> 6M, I worked 6M VUCC in a little over 24 hours time.
> If I recall correctly all I was only running 150W to 3
> elements (with armstrong rotator).
>
> Duane
> N9DG
> EN53bj
>
> --- Zack Widup <w9sz@prairienet.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 May 2003, John K9IJ wrote:
> >
> > > At 02:11 PM 5/30/2003 -0500, Zack Widup wrote:
> > > >When was the VHF contest with the HUGE opening in
> > the Midwest? It was a
> > > >January VHF Sweepstakes and was one of the years
> > 1976-79 but I forget
> > > >which exactly.
> > >
> > > Two years ago, in June, it was open all night from
> > Chicago to Texas but
> > > there was hardly
> > > anybody awake on either end.
> > >
> >
> > I remember that one, and I'm kicking myself for not
> > having some sort of
> > alerting system to let me know about it.
> >
> > The big opening I'm thinking of was one of two years
> > we had a big multi-op
> > effort in VHF SS here in Champaign, IL. W9IP and
> > W3EP might remember, as
> > I think they were both in on it, but I don't know if
> > either is on this
> > reflector.
> >
> > 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
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