[CQ-Contest] Band condx - 10/15 for FD 2003

[Milt Jensen]

Nearly identical to your report with the exception of 15 Meters.  It was
better than you nreport but far from great.  Our group, Eastern AZ Amateur
Radio Society, running 3A solar powered QRP at 9,000' AMSL in SE AZ made
about 165 Qs on CW and 200 As on SSB, on 15 Meters.

Preliminary tabulations show 12K+ points for our 4 Elecraft K-2s even though
condx and other things were far from optimum.

73 de Milt, N5IA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck" <k3ft at erols.com>
To: "PVRC Reflector" <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>; "CQ-CONTEST"
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 9:22 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Band condx - 10/15 for FD 2003


> Anyone have any observations on band conditions for FD weekend?  From our
> location (MDC, 900 feet AMSL, trapped 80-10M vertical, CW only op)  we
> observed the following as we checked the bands in morning, afternoon,
> evening, and overnight.
>
> 80 - later afternoon - morning (right before D/E layers fattened back up)
> was about average props from MDC
> 40/20 active and busy the entire time
> 15 - only heard sporadic stations, only worked 30 folks or so on Sunday
> 10 - Quieter than a receiver with the antenna disconnected and the gain
> turned down.
>
> Understand prop forecast had active geomag field and VHF was active.
>
> looking for other observations/anecdotes
>
> 73
> Chuck K3FT
>
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