[VHFcontesting] Shortest time to 2m VUCC

[Walter Pete-CPW005]

Hi John & Dan,
2m VUCC has happened in less than a day!  In the September 1992 VHF
contest, the AA9D (EN52) multi-op worked 114 grids on 2 meters.  A quick
look at the log shows VUCC in just under 21 hours!  There's no mountains
near Chicago.  Just a nice hill that's about 200' tall.  No Es or Au,
but some very nice tropo that weekend.

Its much faster on 6m.  For example, K3EAR in the July 2006 CQ VHF
contest:
100 grids   3.1 hours
200 grids   6.8 hours
300 grids  26.5 hours
But I suspect that are several examples out there that are much quicker.

73,
Pete
K9PW 

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[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dan_K9ZF
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:41 PM
To: John Geiger
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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Shortest time to 2m VUCC

Having a mountain under you would be a big help too:-)

73
Dan
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John Geiger wrote:
> Hi Gene,
>
> Wow!  Never would have thought that 100 grids in a single weekend 
> could be done on 2m.  That is surely impressive.  Probably need a 
> mixture of enhanced propagation-like Eskip with some tropo or aurora 
> thrown in.
>
> 73s john W5TD
>   
>   
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