[SECC] ARRL June VHF Contest This Weekend

[Macie, Gordon]

I'm in EM73

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ku8e at bellsouth.net [mailto:ku8e at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: secc at contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] ARRL June VHF Contest This Weekend
> 
> 
> 
>  Hi All...
> 
>   Is anyone doing the VHF contest this weekend ???  I 
> remember K4EA mention
> he is going up to NC in the mountains. Anyone else ??
> 
>  Condx have been pretty good on 6 meters for about the last 
> week. A couple nights ago it was open to the east coast and 
> midwest. I worked about 50 
> stations using my HF antenna - an 88 ft center fed zepp. I 
> even got some answers to my CQ and had a small pileup for awhile. 
> 
>  Depending on how good the condx are on Saturday I might just 
> jump in my car with my DK9SQ mast and a quad loop for 6 
> meters and do a small rover operation.
> Looking at the map I am only about 75 miles from the 
> intersection of EM73 , EM83, EM71 and EM81 - which I think 
> are pretty rare grids. If 6 really opened up it could be real 
> "fun" just doing 6 meters !!!  Although I have 2 meters and 
> 432 - I don't have antennas built now plus I'm not sure how much
> activity there is down that far south to make it worth 
> while??? I would appreciate any advice I can get about VHF 
> contesting down here..... 
> 
>                               73's Jeff
> 
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