Geez Dave That might be a tad bit extreme! When I vacation in Maine
everyone is very nice. I'm sure your neighbors would be happy to go through
a contest weekend without power if you asked them nicely......
KB1EAA, Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Olean" <k1whs@worldpath.net>
To: "kentke" <kentke@infoblvd.net>; <VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] 2M Sprint
Hi Ken et al,
Great totals from FN12!! It looks like you had some tropo. (and a good
time!) It was my time to get in my familiar position in the bottom of the
tropo barrel. The band was absolutely gone here in Maine. The W3CCX beacon
is always audible on 144 and 432 here...always except last night. I could
hear stations in New Jersey, VE3, and Connecticut working some good DX,
but
it never was audible here. A weak frontal trough bisected the ME NH border
and effectively disconnected us Maniacs from the action. K2SMN told me
about WA4WEN in FM86, and LOUD in NJ. I had the array aimed at the correct
heading, but never heard even a peep. I did not call many CQs, but
listened
a lot, and pounced on new stations. I quit at 9:30PM with 30 some contacts
and about 14 grids. Did I mention that the power line noise peaked at S4
to
5 due Southwest where all the action normally is. I need to stage a power
outage. Maybe I can run my old car into a strategic power pole or sub
station before the next sprint.
73
Dave K1WHS
----- Original Message -----
From: "kentke" <kentke@infoblvd.net>
To: <VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:11 AM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] 2M Sprint
Hope you all had as much fun as I did in the 2M sprint.
83 q's and 31 grids.
Many thanks for all the cw contacts, had a blast running a small cw
pile-up.
Hope to see some of you on saturday Sep 25, 04 at the Elmira hamfest.
Ken
KA2LIM
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