[3830] ARRL June VHF K7HKR SO 3Band LP

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                    ARRL June VHF Contest - 2019

Call: K7HKR
Operator(s): K7HKR
Station: K7HKR

Class: SO 3Band LP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  72     50
    2:           
  222:           
  432:           
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  72     50  Total Score = 3,600

Club: 

Comments:

3el Yagi at 7 meters, IC-7300 barefoot, from AZ
2m transverter available, but all QSOs were on 6m

That was AWFUL...until the last 2 hours and 15 minutes.  Saturday and most of
Sunday featured very sparse and weak Es openings only accessible with FT8 and
featuring very rapid and deep QSB.  I had more QSOs that failed at the RR73/73
phase than successful QSOs.  It didn't help that I kept getting beaten out on
the brief peaks by locals running full power.

Finally, some good propagation kicked in around 0045UT Sunday evening to save an
otherwise wasted weekend.  I picked up 38 QSOs in the last 135 minutes, all
sporadic-E, which is a nice rate for me.  This also included some SSB QSOs, so
thankfully it wasn't just an FT8-fest.  The best rate was 10 FT8 QSOs in 16
minutes.


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