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

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

 Good contest (on Sunday) but I missed EN82 and EM89! Not to mention neighboring grids EN92 and FN01 in six. (I got FN01 on two). Thanks to K9NW who I believe was my unique EM79 QSO, and NA8V who I know was my unique EN83.

73  -  Jim  K8MR
 
 
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Subject: ARRL June VHF K8MR Single Op LP

                    ARRL June VHF Contest - 2020

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

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: EN91
Operating Time (hrs): 11

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
    6:  158    88
    2:  12    6
  222:    2    2
  432:    4    2
  903:          
  1.2:          
  2.3:          
  3.4:          
  5.7:          
  10G:          
  24G:          
-------------------
Total:  176    98  Total Score = 17,836

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

Saturday was about as bad as it gets. Only cool things were working VE2CSI in
FO60 - I'm not a grid chaser but I don't recall ever working an FO grid before.
And the cut number CW QSO with W1NN here in grid square EN NA. A late evening
opening to the Minneapolis area was the only thing approaching excitement.

Sunday was great, six meter skip to pretty much of the eastern 2/3 of the
country at some time or other. It did take until evening to work the first DM
grid QSO, and then only 3 or 4 QSOs with the Colorado grids. And only one late
QSO to the Texas EL grids. 

Higher bands - meh. To be expected with six meters open, but also missing the
active multiops of past years. A half full or half empty situation - lots of
people on six, but it used to be that if you bothered to get a six meter radio,
you might also get something for the higher bands. Now with six meters standard
in HF rigs, folks can pretty much get their VHF desires satisfied without adding
another rig.

All QSOs involved human decoding. And more QSOs on CW than on SSB. And I missed
a lot of people who apparently used only machine decoding.


73  -  Jim  K8MR


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