[VHFcontesting] Where is everyone?

[Zack Widup]

I was a Hilltopper so I only got 6 hours to operate and I chose the first 6
hours of the contest.
Not much happening as far as openings here in Illinois until the last hour
of my time; 6 meters started opening to the west and southwest then and the
opening didn't really get going till I had about 20 minutes left. Wouldn't
you know it.

K5QE and XE2WWW must've been making their own propagation. They were the
only DX heard here on 6m before late afternoon. Both were quite loud on an
otherwise empty band. But they also heard my peanut whistle!

73, Zack W9SZ


On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:47 PM, STeve Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:

>
> We're on 50.130 and 144.205 and have made four contacts so far.
>
> I'm just not hearing much. The hepburn tropo maps are saying
> there should be great ducting to the west of us (EN82) but I'm
> disappointed so far.
>
> So look for us!  W8PGW   ;-)
>
>
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