[3830] CQWW VHF K1TO SOSB/6 LP

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                    CQ Worldwide VHF Contest

Call: K1TO
Operator(s): K1TO
Station: K1TO

Class: SOSB/6 LP
QTH: EL87 - FL
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  498   137
    2:           
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Total:  498   137  Total Score = 68,226

Club: Florida Contest Group

Comments:

My first ever CQ VHF.  Erected a 6M7JHV @ 55' on June 3 and am using 100W.  All
of the 6M veterans are saying this is the toughest Es season in many years, so
I picked a bad year to get started.  

Condx from FL were very different than from the rest of the country.  Saturday
was a grind and it was frustrating to hear N4WW steadily working guys in a band
opening that he created to the northeast with his high antenna.  When I shut
down for a thunderstorm more than 4 hrs in, there were only 19 QSOs in my log. 
Hearing JE1BMJ at 0007Z was a highlight (also heard Han on June 22).  Late in
the evening, it finally opened to W1/2, but activity was light.  Went to bed
with 90 QSOs.  Had watched the DXMAPS map with red lines everywhere but FL.

Sunday was terrific by comparison with over 400 QSOs, but almost none were
double-hop.  Farthest QSOs were in SD, CO and NM.  Was calling a W7 in OR and
W3FF/6 called me, but we couldn't complete a QSO.  No DX at all on Sunday and
only YV/6Y on Saturday.  

106 CW QSOs.  20 new grids.  Stuck at 45 states -- had hoped to work SC, ND and
NV, but not even a whiff of any of them.  

Although I thought I'd read the rules reasonably well, I didn't realize that
there is no Low Power category -- this must be the only such contest!

73, Dan


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