Wow, well this was certainly an interesting contest!! I knew I only had a few
hours on Saturday to operate and chances of being able to get on Sunday were
slim (ended up being none).. BUT what the heck I got on pretty much at the
start and since there was e skip started on six. Holy smokes, all of a sudden I
was running stations some times 3-4 per minute (I am running 90 watts and a 4
el beam so I am NOT a big gun!). Stations were single hop mostly to the
mid-south EM and FM a few EN. After 2 hours I had around 140 QSO's !! This was
all on SSB of course.. I suppose I could have picked and chosen new grids on 6M
FT8 but the Q rate was so high I never even looked there!! The skip shortened
up around 1900Z and I was working a few FN10/FN20/FM29 stations so started
looking for skip on 2M but nothing,.. in fact the band was empty except for a
few locals on FT8.. back to 6.. After 2000Z my time to operate was short and
spotty but I did manage a few more 6M Q's and get this.. 7 QSO's on 2M
all on FT8 (all stations I would normally work on SSB)!!! (I heard no one on
2M SSB/CW at any time)..
here are the totals:
50 - 160 Q's 55 grids
144 - 7 Q's 6 grids
total operating time 3 hours
I don't even know what to say about that!! BUT, it was fun and thanks to all
who got on..
bill, K1DY in Maine
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