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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