[3830] ARRL Sep VHF K4HQK Single Op-All Modes LP

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                    ARRL September VHF Contest - 2022

Call: K4HQK
Operator(s): K4HQK
Station: K4HQK

Class: Single Op-All Modes LP
QTH: Alexandria, VA
Operating Time (hrs): 5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  43     13
    2:           
  222:           
  432:           
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  43     13  Total Score = 559

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Unlike the September contest one year ago, 6 meters was--Can we say
it--"even deader"? We were just not getting much help from the E
layer. Not sure what was providing QSOs beyond line of sight unless it was thin
Es. My "DX" to the south was EM96 (Charlotte, NC--312 miles). To the
north, FN33 (Essex, VT--441 miles). Westward, the WV state line. At one point
two Ontario stations popped up but they quickly disappeared before I could call
them. That was the only "DX" I saw.

It was tedious watching the same call signs CQing over and over, myself
included, so I budgeted my time frugally across the weekend, only 5 hours in
all. The band never came to life even briefly at my QTH. 

Optimistically I had registered as an "all mode" station, and for the
first half hour of the contest I worked three local stations on SSB. That was
the last time I heard SSB, and never any CW. It was almost all digital--FT8--but
no FT4 ever, despite several checks. As a result, my QSO total was one-half what
I worked one year ago.

John K4HQK
Alexandria, VA

Station: Icom7410 at 100w; Cushcraft 3-el Yagi on 25' tower atop 110' hill.


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