[VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF 6 m condx

[w0ld]

If I might add my .02 cents worth.

I well remember the l987 June VHF QSO party.  I was a part of the WB0DRL
contest crew in Kansas.  Six meters never closed the entire weekend.  On
Sunday morning I was operating six when the two meter operator WA0TKJ said 2
meters was open from Florida to Kansas.  2 meters was open for almost two
hours that morning.

That was the weekend that the first 220 Mhz. E contacts were worked.  While
the WB0DRL station was not in on the 220 Mhz. propagation, I can remember 2
meter operators in the southeast looking for 220 Mhz. stations to try work
and lining up skeds on 2 meters.

The higher bands opened and that same weekend and we were working into 8 and
9 land all the way to W2 on 432 and 1296.

That was the "grandaddy" of all VHF contests.  I have been operating on the
VHF bands for 25 years and have never experienced conditions like the June
1987 contest.  What a wild time!

Lauren Libby W0LD

> From: "crawfish" <crawfish at surfmore.net>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:06:31 -0500
> To: "John Geiger" <aa5jg at lcisp.com>, "Ellen Rugowski"
> <ellenjoanne2003 at sbcglobal.net>, "Zack Widup" <w9sz at prairienet.org>,
> vhfcontesting at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF 6 m condx
> 
> 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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