[VHFcontesting] W9SZ CQ WW VHF (fwd)

[Zack Widup]

Here's my score for my ~5 hours of activity on Sunday afternoon:

Band     Q's     Points     Mults
6m        7        7          6
2m        6        12         5

TOTAL     13       19         11  = 209

I was in the "Hilltopper" class from a hill in the extreme southeast 
corner of EN51, west of Chebanse IL.  This is near the corner of 4 grid 
squares. It didn't seem to be such a great location.  I've had better luck 
from other hills.  

It was 95 degrees in the shade with high humidity and no breeze, and 
sitting there in a black car I was sweltering!  I thought I was going to 
get heat exhaustion a couple times.  Today I have a pretty painful 
sunburn. The price we pay for "fun"!  :-)

Six meters kept on promising of an opening and I worked 4 eastern grids 
but it wasn't even as good as Field Day, which was also pitiful. Other 
than that, conditions were pretty poor.  I started hearing stations to the 
northeast several grids away during the last 15 minutes of the contest but 
if it developed into any sort of opening, everyone went QRT at the end.

73, Zack W9SZ