[VHFcontesting] Fwd: Re: CQ WW VHF Contest 2014

[Keith Morehouse]

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From: "Keith Morehouse" <w9rm at calmesapartners.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2014 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] CQ WW VHF Contest 2014
To: "Bruce Kripton" <bkripton at pacbell.net>

There was absolutely no sporadic E in western CO until exactly 1600z on
Sunday,  then it was bedlam until the end.  Multiple paths, multiple
reflection points, skew, backscatter, side scatter, single hop, double hop,
Jupiter bounce...

This was one where you REALLY needed multiple antennas. Just crazy wild
conditions.

Keith J. Morehouse
via Droid3
On Jul 22, 2014 6:43 PM, "Bruce Kripton" <bkripton at pacbell.net> wrote:

> In the famous words of the Monty Python Crew... "And now for something
> completely different ..."
>
> I'm curious to hear from others that participated in this past weekends CQ
> VHF Contest as to propagation conditions experienced on 6 meters....
>
> From Southern California, I had what I will call the strangest ES I have
> ever contested in ... We had several hours of stable paths to parts of
> upper and central  Mexico and then a very brief opening to Mexico City
> later on Saturday afternoon.
>
> On Sunday, it was pretty much all over the map, with some paths hanging in
> for hours, and brief (minutes if not seconds) to most others... If you had
> to ask for a repeat or a partial fill on the exchange, it was all over and
> too late.
>
> More info when I put my soapbox together, but curious how it was elsewhere
> in the country.
>
> de KG6IYN
>
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