[SCCC] Fwd: ARRL VHF W6PH SO HP

[Kurt Pauer]

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From: <W6ph at aol.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Subject: ARRL VHF W6PH SO HP
To: w6ph73 at gmail.com


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                    ARRL June VHF QSO Party

Call: W6PH
Operator(s): W6PH
Station: W6PH

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: DM06wn
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Grids
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    6:    248   123
    2:       2       2
  222:
  432:
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Total:   250   125  Total Score = 31,250

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment:  IC-7000, SB220, B1016
Antennas:  6M7JHV at 60 feet, 13B2 at 60 feet

Eighty per cent of my contacts were made in a three hour period from 2330
UTC
until 0230 UTC Saturday night and then the band went flat.  Other times just
spotlight openings to the northwest or EM grids.  No Es after 18 UTC on
Sunday.

I am at 4600 feet in the Owens Valley with Mt Whitney and the Sierra Nevada
mountains less than five miles west of me effectively blocking any VHF
signals to
populated areas.  One 2 meter contact (N6EQ) was 150 miles away and the
other
was a mountain topper in Death Valley.  No other 2 meter signals were heard.

Three days before the contest there were excellent double hop 6m openings
east
but they were gone during the two days before the contest.  Other than those
three hours on Saturday the Es was very limited.

                   73, Kurt W6PH Lone Pine CA DM06