6 M wss open from 0330 utc May 30 all nignt. Even worked YV1DIG fk60 around 1 am local! Still going with WB9MVQ/Ø dn87 just going in the log. Heard many many double hop Es between east and wes
There was a better one in the 1987 June Contest. K7CW _________________________________________________________________ http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfcontesting ____________________
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. I always keep hoping that will happen agai
Two years ago, in June, it was open all night from Chicago to Texas but there was hardly anybody awake on either end. - John Rice K9IJ k9ij@vx5.com Webmaster, Network Admin, Janitor http://www.k9ij.c
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 V
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). Du
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 m
June 1987 had the Great Sporadic-E Opening. The first 220 MHz Sporadic-E contact was made then and there were scores of 144 MHz double-hop QSOs. I was in DM82 then and worked W6s and W4s simultaneous
Yeah, I remember the 1992 VHF QSO Party as well. It was my first shot with a decent station - 1000W out on 50, 600W out on 144 and 100W out on 432. 6M was terrific; I remember working west coast stat