[VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF 6 m condx

[John Geiger]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ellen Rugowski" <ellenjoanne2003 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Zack Widup" <w9sz at prairienet.org>; <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF 6 m condx


>> the fabled June 1987 VHF QSO Party, where we had non-stop Es.  Still,
condx.
> were better than the June contest, where I only had 2 Es QSOs, and the
rest
> of my 6m QSOs were brute force tropo (tropo's tough to do on 6).
>

Any 6m Es would have been better than the June contest.  And we must have
had a little bit of tropo last night as WD5K in EM12 was S6 on 6m, at around
180 miles away.  Good enough signals that we sat and ragchewed for 5 minutes
or so.

Wasn't on 6m for the 1987 contest, but still hear alot about that one.  The
1992 June contest was my first contest on 6m, and we had fabulous 6m
conditions for that almost all day saturday, with some 2 meter Es thrown in
on Sunday

73s John AA5JG
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