From Oklahoma I was able to work Ohio and Virginia on 2m SSB Sunday morning
using 90 watts and 5 elements at 15 feet.73 John AF5CC Sent via the Samsung
Galaxy A10e, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: RT Clay <rt_clay@bellsouth.net> Date:
6/28/21 5:04 PM (GMT-06:00) To: cq-contest@contesting.com, jimk8mr@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The High Bands Were Good ! Yes, there was a big 2m Es
opening during FD. I was at W5YD (EM53 West Point, MS), and we worked stations
in MN and VE4 on 2m. All we had was about 50w and a 5 element yagi up about 20
feet- still s9 signals. Pretty neat to show to new hams whose only 2m usage is
FM and repeaters.Tor N4OGW On Monday, June 28, 2021, 11:41:30 AM CDT, K8MR
via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote: Lots of people have noted
that the high bands were good this weekend, but how many realize just how
good?Not being at a serious FD effort, I played around doing things that one
would not normally do in a competitive contest, like going to odd bands. At
1530Z Sunday I went to 2M SSB to see if I could add to my one QSO there the
previous evening. While it took some effort with my mere 10 watts there (K3
with internal transverter) I worked two guys in North Texas, which made NTX my
most worked section on that band, vs. one each in WPA and Ohio.A shame that
could not have happened two weeks earlier for the June VHF contest!73 - Jim
K8MR Back in Ohio for the
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