Here in Illinois, not much. I was in the Hilltopper category and I chose my
operating time to be from contest start to 2359Z on Saturday (I didn't
quite last that long). There was a promise of an opening to New England
from before the contest and maybe for a couple hours. I was hearing a
couple W1 beacons on 6m quite loud. Strangely enough, I only heard a few
stations from that region and only worked two of them. QSB was very deep
and stations would be S9 one minute and in the noise the next. One VE3
station faded out before I could work him. Then the band petered out and I
only made local QSO's on 6m till I went QRT.
I heard there was an opening during the last few hours of the contest on 6m
for this area but I missed that.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Bruce Kripton <bkripton@pacbell.net> wrote:
> In the famous words of the Monty Python Crew... "And now for something
> completely different ..."
>
> I'm curious to hear from others that participated in this past weekends CQ
> VHF Contest as to propagation conditions experienced on 6 meters....
>
> From Southern California, I had what I will call the strangest ES I have
> ever contested in ... We had several hours of stable paths to parts of
> upper and central Mexico and then a very brief opening to Mexico City
> later on Saturday afternoon.
>
> On Sunday, it was pretty much all over the map, with some paths hanging in
> for hours, and brief (minutes if not seconds) to most others... If you had
> to ask for a repeat or a partial fill on the exchange, it was all over and
> too late.
>
> More info when I put my soapbox together, but curious how it was elsewhere
> in the country.
>
> de KG6IYN
>
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