[NCC] Fw: CQWW VHF W1NN SOAB LP

[Hal Offutt]

                    CQ Worldwide VHF Contest

Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: EN91
Operating Time (hrs): 5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
    6:  38     19
    2:  23      9
-------------------
Total:  61     28  Total Score = 2,352

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

I don't have any VHF antennas permanently installed so for this contest I 
put up
a dipole at 40' for 6 Meters and an 8 element yagi at 25' for 2 Meters.  The 
2
Meter antenna is set up on a mast right next to my shack window so I can 
rotate
it by hand.  I could work almost anything that I could hear.  I will 
probably
take these down today until the next contest.

20 of my 38 6 meter contacts were on CW.  Never heard any CW on 2 and I'm 
not
sure where to look.  Caught an opening to VE1 and W0 on Saturday but there 
were
only a handful of stations to work and sometimes I had call 5-10 times to 
get
through, but I usually was able to be heard.  Caught 2-3 stations from 
5-land
and one C6 station (my first non VE DX on 6!) but that's about it.

I checked the bands every hour or two throughout contest (except for late 
night
hours) and usually there were just one or two new stations to work.  K8WW
deserves the persistence award.  Nearly every time I turned on the rig he 
was
calling CQ on 6 Meters CW.

It must be a lot of fun when the band is wide open during one of these
contests, but based on what I read, the odds of this happening are not high.

73, Hal W1NN