ARRL June VHF Contest - 2023
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SO 3Band-Analog LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 8.2
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 178 69
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 178 69 Total Score = 12,282
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
I was not planning on much operating in this event, just vaguely aware it was
June VHF weekend. There was enough Es on 6M to suck me into staying with it
while the band was open for the most part. The XYL and I went out to a nice
restaurant about 35 minutes away Sunday evening so I was off from 2030 until
2340Z with the band open to mainly FL when I left to well open to the SW and a
few others at 2340Z. At the start here were good Es conditions about the first 2
hours starting with 5th call area and moving farther north to southern O's
around 1920Z. Around 2330Z the band opened to SFL after not much since 20Z.
Texas and a dew scatted Gulf Coast came through around 0045Z. Much of early
Sunday was either dead or a few mainly already worked FL and TX coming through.
Condx were better when I returned at 1830Z and I worked a CO2 at 1943Z for my
only DX outside of W/VE. My only USA QSO to the NW was in EN66 as I was starting
back up at 2340Z. I only managed 2 double hop QSO's to CO and UT through the
evening, but was still adding grids and QSO's to 4's and 5's with a few southern
0's. I heard VE4GV working someone on CW and moved him down 1 KHz for my only VE
QSO.
N2NT and W3LL did amazingly well, but most of the big scores were out west where
6M was clearly open to more grids and open longer than from here. Nearly all of
my Es Q's were between headings of 210 to 290 degrees. Local activity was fairly
decent, but some easy grids were missed. I had significant line noise much of
the daylight hours; sorry if I missed you calling me. The rover activity both
locally and to the SW seemed to be at record high levels. I felt a little louder
than usual, but still was hearing locals work stations I could not copy. CQ'ing
brought in a lot of calls overall but was slow most of Sunday.
Thanks for the QSO's and 73, Jeff
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