[3830] CQWW VHF AA8IA SOSB/6 LP

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                    CQ Worldwide VHF Contest

Call: AA8IA
Operator(s): AA8IA
Station: AA8IA

Class: SOSB/6 LP
QTH: Toronto OH EN90QL
Operating Time (hrs): 4:03

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  63     31
    2:           
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Total:  63     31  Total Score = 1,953

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

One word comes to mind -- anticlimactic.  Spoiled by decent sporadic-E activity
for the ARRL test in June, I was hoping and anticipating that conditions would
be similar or better for this one.   Of course I didn't bother to check out any
propogation predictions.

Saturday was a total bust for sporadic-E.   I don't think I logged anything
from here in Ohio other than ground wave and tropo.   By the end of my
adventure last night I had no plans to get back on today.   After all, Sunday
is family day.

I did end up jumping back on for a brief period Sunday afternoon to find some
sporadic-E to the south.   My farthest catches were 9Y4D and CO2WF, but I heard
a TI beacon, as well as a TI station on SSB who I wasn't able to work.

Operating hours were way more than the 4:03 that N1MM claimed.   I spent
considerable time searching as well as CQing into the abyss.   I heard nothing
at all from the west or southeast.   Saturday evening I briefly heard a couple
VE stations, one of which tried to make a contact with me but I couldn't pull
them out.   And I did barely year a W1 station around the same time.

Hope things are more exciting for the next 6m contest.


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