[3830] ARRL Sep VHF N9DG Single Op LP

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                    ARRL September VHF QSO Party

Call: N9DG
Operator(s): N9DG
Station: N9DG

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: EN53
Operating Time (hrs): 26

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:   98    47
    2:  123    43
  222:   44    25
  432:   62    26
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  327   141  Total Score = 61,053

Club: Badger Contesters

Comments:

Well this one was considerably better than the June contest here. Conditions
overall were better, though not particularly great tropo-wise here. At the open
of the contest I was hearing some 2M stuff out of a few FN0x grids but could not
get their attention. On 222 and 432 the conditions seemed very normal, not bad,
but not enhanced either. Frustratingly I could hear some to my east getting into
some tropo to the Northeast that I simply wasn’t hearing – but then that’s life
on the VHF+ weak signal bands.

With the very dry conditions here I noticed that nonspecific noise in general
was noticeably higher than normal. During the Sunday afternoon doldrums all that
noise had effectively masked the weaker stations. I also noted rather loud
S5-ish Sun noise on 2M for both Saturday evening’s sunset and Sunday morning’s
sunrise. I don’t usually hear Sun noise that pronounced.

AU and Es, what can I say, I did manage to pick up a number of extra grids and
Q’s that I would not have otherwise thanks to both of those events. The AU was
not nearly as strong as June though, the Sunday evening 6M E was only for a
couple of hours and rather limited geographically. I too had a really hard time
getting the attention of many of those loud 4 land signals on 6M during this Es
opening. That was indeed a bit strange.

So overall I’m pretty happy with my results for this one.

Duane
N9DG


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