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 stations at 1 AM local
time here. I wound up spending so much time on 6M on Saturday that I was
heartbroken to learn from the locals that I had missed WA7KYM (Wyoming, if
I recall) on 144 SSB. Fortunately, he was in again on Sunday and I was not
caught napping the second time.
73,
Dave/K8CC
At 03:01 PM 5/30/03 -0700, you wrote:
>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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