A pretty sad contest from S.E. Colorado. Lack of propagation, and
lack of regional participation resulted in a total of 29 QSOs.
Nearly the same nubber of QSOs and 32 more point than my 2015
CQ WW VHF and last year I had to QRT after 5 hours on Saturday.
Thanks mostly to George, AB0YM/R, a couple of casual, non-contesters
along the front range, and strange, "pop-up" skip to individual
"DX" stations, all but 5 of my 29 QSOs were unique --
i.e., I had 24 out of 29 QSOs as multipliers.
The "pop-up" skip was weird and occurred mostly on Sunday.
E.g.,
* one 59+ QSO to DN28 --- and nothing else.
* one 59+ QSO to CN87 --- and nothing else.
* one 59+ QSO t0 EM71 --- and nothing else.
* one 59+ QSO to CM87 --- and nothing else.
* one 59+ QSO to DL92 --- and nothing else.
These were NOT meteor burns.
Most of those staions were in for less than a minute.
But, I heard 2 or 3 of'em calling CQ for several minutes --
with NO TAKERS.
There was a weak, ratty opening down into Old Mexico late Saturday
afternoon. They seemed to be working folks all South and S.E. of me --
as I heard their QSL'ing of the other op's grid square.
I only snagged one of'em.
Maybe all the forest fire smoke blanketing eastern Colorado had the
effect of knocking signal levels down by 3-6-9 dB. Ya think? HI!HI!
RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid QSOs
DM77 8 ( I spent approx 4-5 hours
DM78 4 ( in each grid, which yields
DM87 7 ( a Q-Rate I would not wish
DM88 10 ( on anybody. HI!HI! )
RoverLog Score Summary:
Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults
50 15 1 15 14
144 14 2 28 10
Totals: 29 43 24
Claimed Score: 1032
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