[Fourlanders] FW: [VHFcontesting] September VHF QSO Party atW4DEX

Jim Worsham wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 12 12:12:35 EDT 2007


Can you believe that!  There was tropo everywhere on the east coast EXCEPT
where we were.

73
Jim, W4KXY

-----Original Message-----
From: fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Brian McCarthy
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:18 AM
To: fourlanders at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] FW: [VHFcontesting] September VHF QSO Party
atW4DEX

Here's how:

http://w4nh.org/Other/Hepburnn-2007-09-07.jpg.png
http://w4nh.org/Other/Hepburnn-2007-09-08.jpg.png
http://w4nh.org/Other/Hepburnn-2007-09-09.jpg.png

We were in the middle of a black hole all weekend and I expect that Dex' was
chasing the rare ones from within the enhancement.

Bummer!
Brian
NX9O

On 9/12/07, Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> How did we miss this and how did we miss working Dexter?
>
> 73
> Jim, W4KXY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dexter 
> McIntyre W4DEX
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:53 AM
> To: VHFContesting
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] September VHF QSO Party at W4DEX
>
> I'm surprised I haven't seen any post about this past weekend's 
> activity.  A bit of hit and miss Es made 6 meters interesting here in EM95
on Saturday.
> But the highlight of the contest was the tropo on Sunday morning 
> created by the low pressure system off the NC/SC coast and the slow 
> moving front to the west.  The tropo for me didn't extend to the north 
> east past PA but the microwave bands were hot from
> EM95 to  FN10 and FN20.  Solid S9 contacts were made on all
> 9 bands, 50 thru 5760, with K3TUF and N3NGE and up to 10 GHz for 10 
> bands with W3SZ.
>
> Dex, W4DEX
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