[NCC] Fwd: ARRL June VHF K8MR Single Op LP

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

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ARRL June VHF QSO Party

Call: K8MR
Operator(s): K8MR
Station:  K8MR

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Ohio/EN91
Operating Time (hrs):  14
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
Band  QSOs   Mults
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6:  217    119
2:   32    18
222:   13    11
432:   17     11
903:           
1.2:    1     1
2.3:       
3.4:            
5.7:           
10G:   
24G:         
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Total:  280   160   Total Score = 49,920

Club: Mad River Radio  Club

Comments:

Before the contest I made several posts to area  clubs promoting the VHF 
test as
the absolutely best weekend of the year to  try six meters. I hope people 
did
not turn on their radios on Saturday,  think I was nuts, and never returned 
on
Sunday.

Saturday was boring,  only a couple of brief but not very loud openings to 
FL
where the guys were  so inundated with callers that it was hard getting 
through.
So I decided  with a clear conscience to take off for a 65 mile bike ride on
Sunday  morning. After the ride, a shower, and a nap it was 21Z until got 
on.
What  a difference! I don't think I've ever heard six open to so many 
places  at
the same time. As noted by other southerners, the opening was covering  
only the
upper half of the USA and nearby Canada, other than a reasonable  number of 
guys
in AZ.

Good CW activity on six. Not much activity or  conditions on the higher 
bands.
Missed a number of nearby grids on the high  bands. Not a single qso in 
FN01 80
miles east of here. Missed usually easy  FN00 on two meters and above as 
W3SO
had antenna problems and was six  meters only. 

A great Sunday evening, with activity up to the  end,including four new 
mults in
the last 10 minutes (W3CCX in FN21 on  2/222/432 and FN41 on six).

Hope we can get another opening even close  to this one for the CQ VHF 
contest
in July. I may do a low key rove in  EN90/FN00/FN01 for that one.

73  -  Jim   K8MR