[VHFcontesting] [VHF] 6M, EU, PNW, 20 June

[David All]

Here from my M2 Loop on the top of my van and long run of coax inside the
house I did not hear any of the nice opening to EU.  Landlord forced me to
remove antennas, dont know if my 4 element beam would have made a difference
in the RF hole I live in here in FM19rw.

But I did have one notable from this weekends great openings, this morning I
worked KW7Y in CN88.  I pulled him up on QRZ.com and was shocked to see that
I just worked WA state.  Wow that was great.  This is a new state and grid
for me, so I was thrilled, now all I have to do is find my push pins for the
map, Hi Hi.

Hope to work some nice 6m E-Skip next weekend durring Field Day.  Red Lion
Transmitting Assoc W3ZGD will have 6,2,432 and HF our GOTA will be W3PA.

Dave N3XUD FM19rw
www.n3xud.webs.com/fieldday2010
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n3xudfm19 at gmail.com



On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Dave B. <bernhardt9025 at comcast.net> wrote:

> This morning was probably the most significant opening to EU from the PNW
> that I can recall.  There was some good EU openings earlier this decade, but
> this be the best, I would say.  My gosh, this is back to back EU into the
> PNW.
>
> WA7GCS woke me up a little before 7AM saying VA was in on 6.  I knew
> something would be up from that report.  Sure enough, by 1454Z K7RWT was
> reporting EU locally.  So here we go again for about 2-hours.  Conditions
> were not as strong as yesterday, but a lot of Eastern Europe came thru.
>  Local stations with higher antennas did better than others.  I think I have
> 2 QSO's, first in many years.  I do not think the Europeans realize how weak
> they are in the Far West.  High speed CW is pretty rough copy out here,
> especially when EU is so rare out here.  A lot of operator, even seasoned
> ones, get a shot of adreneline during such openings.  The Europeans probably
> could work more out here if they keep this item in mind and slow down a bit.
>  There are a lot of grids out here.
>
> As I write this report, NN7J has 13 new countries this morning, K7RWT has 5
> and KI7JA worked 4.  N7EA is the only local on that did not make a contact.
>  Ron has a hill in the direction of EU and has been active on 6 many
> decades.  Other locals heard were AH6FC/W7, KB7ME & W0RLI.  There were a
> number of stations on from the PNW.  K7CW could be heard working stations.
>  Quite a few postings from KE7V.  I believe W7EME scored with SU today also.
>  Mark, W7MEM, did a good job up in Idaho from the reports.  I was
> concentrating on operating so I am just going by memory in this report.
>
> One difference in EU that I can see is that there was not a massive 2M
> opening in progress when the PNW was into EU yesterday.
>
> I save a number of the propagation maps from this morning.  The system was
> so overloaded at times, there were no calls listed.
>
> Can it happen again on Monday?  We are at summer solstice, geomagnetic
> conditions seem stable for the immediate future, so it does seem possible
> for another repeat as I see it.
>
> For those that might have missed it last night, there was a 2M opening to
> KS & TX last night from the PNW.
>
>        de Dave
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