[Fourlanders] June Contest Results Posted

[Brian McCarthy]

Hmmm,

You got me wondering a bit too. If I have all the particulars correct:
W9ICE - EN60vb, K8GP - FM08fq, W4NH - EM85jm, AA4ZZ - EM96df;

from W9ICE to K8GP is 102 degrees & 370 miles;
from W9ICE to AA4ZZ  is 136 degrees & 361 miles;
from W4NH to K8GP is 46 degrees & 300 miles;
from W4NH to AA4ZZ is 60 degrees & 97 miles;
from W9ICE to W4NH is 152 degrees & 354 miles.

Reflecting on working K8GP from W4NH, it is never a problem to work them 
on any of the lower 4 bands. We have also worked them on some of the 
microwave bands. AA4ZZ's signal is, by comparison, a brutal beacon in 
about the same direction. On 222 working W9ICE has often felt like 
bordering on ESP signal levels. There has been a light, airy, flutter to 
the signal that is reminicent of HF polar flutter. I suspect, without 
looking at the topo' maps that it is partly a bit of knife edge 
diffraction or similar off of a nearfield ridgeline combined with 
thermal affects since we seem to work you on Sunday afternoon's.

You might want to add W9ICE to the N2MH RoveSite Locator to make it 
easier for rovers to plan you into their schedules and databases. See: 
http://www.intac.com/~mherson/rovesite.htm

On the otherhand, we would love for you to contest with us at W4NH again.

Brian
NX9O

Rogers, Ron wrote:

>OK....I guess I was working on a wrong assumption.....But, Jim (my son, WE8W) and I both discussed after the June contest that we did not hear K8GP during those operating times we were at the W4NH consoles working the 432, 222, and 144 stations and thought that was highly unusual. 
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>Admittedly, we didn't go down through the logs to see what all had been worked and when GP was worked........when operating the W9ICE stations we are so accustom to using GP as a reference beacon on all bands that you get used to hearing them during the entire contest. 
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>Ron Rogers
>WW8RR
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