[VHFcontesting] 2M Sprint

[Dave Wendling]

Geez Dave That might be a tad bit extreme!  When I vacation in Maine 
everyone is very nice. I'm sure your neighbors would be happy to go through 
a contest weekend without power if you asked them nicely......

KB1EAA, Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Olean" <k1whs at worldpath.net>
To: "kentke" <kentke at infoblvd.net>; <VHFcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] 2M Sprint


> Hi Ken et al,
>    Great totals from FN12!! It looks like you had some tropo. (and a good
> time!)  It was my time to get in my familiar position in the bottom of the
> tropo barrel. The band was absolutely gone here in Maine. The W3CCX beacon
> is always audible on 144 and 432 here...always except last night.  I could
> hear stations in New Jersey, VE3,  and Connecticut working some good DX, 
> but
> it never was audible here. A weak frontal trough bisected the ME NH border
> and effectively disconnected us Maniacs from the action.  K2SMN told me
> about WA4WEN in FM86, and LOUD in NJ. I had the array aimed at the correct
> heading, but never heard even a peep.  I did not call many CQs, but 
> listened
> a lot, and pounced on new stations. I quit at 9:30PM with 30 some contacts
> and about 14 grids. Did I mention that the power line noise peaked at S4 
> to
> 5 due Southwest where all the action normally is. I need to stage a power
> outage. Maybe I can run my old car into a strategic power pole or sub
> station before the next sprint.
>
> 73
> Dave K1WHS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kentke" <kentke at infoblvd.net>
> To: <VHFcontesting at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:11 AM
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] 2M Sprint
>
>
>> Hope you all had as much fun as I did in the 2M sprint.
>>
>> 83 q's  and 31 grids.
>> Many thanks for all the cw contacts, had a blast running a small cw
> pile-up.
>> Hope to see some of you on saturday Sep 25, 04 at the Elmira hamfest.
>>
>> Ken
>> KA2LIM
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