[VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF 6 m condx

[Zack Widup]

Hi Curt,

It was great to work you once more this past weekend!

What year did you and Mike W9IP and others operate from the press box at 
the University of Illinios stadium for the January contest? Weren't 
conditions pretty good in that one?

I believe that was the year after the local group of VHF'ers used the 
110-foot fire-tower structure at the U of I Bondville field station and 
got stranded up there by the blizzard for a few days. I forget how the 
conditions were for that one. Alas, that tower was torn down a year or so 
ago, just when I started inquiring about how I could use it for a contest.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, curtis roseman wrote:

> Good to hear from some folks who remember the Big One.
>
> In June 1987, I was with the N6CA group on Mount Pinos in Southern California.   That year we got the biggest score ever attained from the West Coast.   On Saturday we were working single and double hop to the east (as far as Bermuda), but only stations south of the Mason-Dixon line.    Then on Sunday, the pattern moved to the north and were were running 7s and 0s through 1s.   I had gotten up early on Sunday to run some meteor skeds, and found the band wide open to  the Pac NW.  Overall, as I recall, we never stopped to S&P, just ran them.  After the contest ended, on Sunday evening, I had a long conversation on 6 meters with W3EP who was in Indiana.  He was S9 plus.   The band just didn't want to quit.
>
> I suppose it could be argued that last July's CQ WW VHF contest was just as good on 6; the record for grids worked on 6 was broken then.  Doesn't matter; we participate each year, and every once in a while, we experince a Big One.
>
> 73.  Curt Roseman   k9aks
>