[VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF 6 m condx

[crawfish]

I well remember June, 1987. I was portable in EM65( rare in those days) just
south of Lewisburg, TN at 1220'( I resided at the time in flatland Alabama
EM64). I worked CT4KQ and many others with an FT620B and a pair of 6KV6's
about 70 watts out to a 5-el. beam lashed to my 1978 Dodge van. Antenna was
up about 20 feet. What a weekend!! I remember 1992 also. I had antennas on
the deck at 20 feet on 6 and 2. Worked VE5 and South Dakota on 2m Es. I had
moved to my present location at 1000' 2 years earlier. I have got to get
things going again!!

Joe W4AAB EM65lb
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Geiger" <aa5jg at lcisp.com>
To: "Ellen Rugowski" <ellenjoanne2003 at sbcglobal.net>; "Zack Widup"
<w9sz at prairienet.org>; <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF 6 m condx


>
> ----- 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
> EM04to
>
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