Good job Ron. I was on for about 3 hours too and had 88 X 31. It was a very
tough evening as from 245 - 330 degrees I have s9 noise. It's been bad
since May and getting worse - this was the worst I've seen. I have one spot at
285 degrees where the noise dropped to s7 and I used that to work most of
the QSO's to the west and northwest - the best I could do even though that
doesn't work well with a very sharp array, hi!
Best DX to the NE was FN44, to the North FN35 and 25, to the NW EN93 and to
the west EN90 and EM89. Down to the south worked FM16, 17, 27 and 07. I
only worked one FN21 (tnx Herb!), one FM19 and a couple of FN41's. No FN11,
02, 33 etc.
My last QSO of the night was the oddest and most interesting. I didn't
hear any DX the whole night, and in fact condx appeared to be poor (I'm sure
the noise issue didn't help). N4QWZ, who was the only DX heard the prior
week during the VHF contest was on the chat page and wanted to give it a try.
I had just tried with W8BYA and heard only pings. Earlier K8TQK was weaker
than normal so nothing indicated any DX could be worked. I was about to
pull the plug anyway do figured why not give a try with Todd though I didn't
think anything would happen. Amazingly I heard him right away - weak but a
steady Q5. I did hear a few meteor pings but the qso was made completely on
tropo scatter. In fact he built up so I could still hear him even better
after our QSO working others. That's 800+ miles on a seemingly dead band.
Just goes to show you I should have had a little more faith....hi! And find
out what Todd is putting on his antennas down there in TN....
Tnx to the sponsors and hope to be on for 222.
73, Jeff K1TEO
In a message dated 9/23/2014 2:45:00 P.M. GMT Daylight Time,
wz1v@sbcglobal.net writes:
144 MHz Fall Sprint
Call: WZ1V
Operator(s): WZ1V
Station: WZ1V
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: FN31rh
Operating Time (hrs): 3
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 46 Mults = 17 Tot Dist(km) = 0 Total Score = 782
Club: North East Weak Signal Group
Comments:
No tropo here on the coastal plain, very flat band.
Best DX VE3EU EN93vu 429 miles.
Took some time out to check into the local nets.
TNX to the participants and the sponsors.
-73, Ron WZ1V
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