[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] 222 Activity Night WZ1V

[David Olean]

I don't know about everyone else, but I just had a super time with the 
Tuesday Night Activity period. I had mentioned that it was probably my 
last regular one until next Spring. To celebrate the occasion, Al, WA1T 
came by and we both spent the evening in the shack just having fun 
copying all of the signals available on 222 MHz. In the last week, 
between some serious EME activity, and the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, we had 
pretty much ruined the woods road that goes up the hill. We had a lot of 
rain & wet snow and the temperature warm up created a lot of mud. 
Driving through it really tore up the road. On Tuesday night, Al & I 
walked up in the dark with flashlights. Al did most of the operating and 
we had fun talking and receiving numerous insults from various callers. 
It was sure a fun night.  The high point was when WA3EOQ wted to work 
us. I told Al to aim the big antenna at 242 degrees for FM09jo, and to 
start calling him on CW. No sooner did Al let up on the key, when I 
heard WA3EOQ coming right back with a solid 539 or so CW signal. It was 
steady and with no QSB at all. We copied every letter that Howard sent. 
This was a big night and possibly the best copy on Howard for the entire 
season! I know that the week before, I barely eked out a contact, 
getting only one or two call sets and one signal report for a total 
copying time of about 15 or 20 seconds MAX, where I could tell what he 
was sending! So one week later in mid December. we both heard WA3EOQ in 
spades with arm chair copy. We had similar luck with W1XR, who always 
has a great signal, and of course, KO4YC in FM17gv at an unbelievable 
525 miles.

Al and I had a nice chat with K1OR, who was operating remote from Tampa 
Florida back to Pelham, NH. K1OR is now Mr. DX, having just polished off 
State #49 in Oregon on 222 MHz. We had to chat awhile about that. The 
Oregon EME trip by K7KQA was quite the success. It was one of those rare 
times when the planets align, and sunshine falls on every part of the 
Earth all at once! A whole slew of stations made the grade one right 
after the other. It was amazing.  But back to the Tuesday Activity 
Night, really, there was so much activity that we could not possibly 
work all of the stations who were  on the band that night. We heard many 
whom we did not actually contact. I think WZ1V and K1PXE had more 
contacts than Al and I made. We did hear KR1ST, K1TR, and a few others 
who never made it into the log. We quit at 9 PM as we had other things 
going on, but we both agreed that it was great night to be active on 222!

Thanks to all who showed up. There were a number of stations that were 
beyond my range for hearing, but I knew they were there plugging away. 
AJ6T, K5QE, and W5EME were there along with some W4 stations. I think 
AA9MY was on along with a big contingent from the Pacific Northwest, and 
all were all making noise on 222.

73

Dave K1WHS

On 12/15/2021 3:50 PM, Peter Motyl wrote:
> Hay Ron,
> Now, this is interesting.  There are four in my log that are not in your log.  One was Al, WA1T who was at Dave’s qth.  So, I don’t know, do we count transmitters or warm bodies?  Al is certainly a warm body.  Anyway, there are still three more.  So, here is my list:
>   
> WB2SIH, WA1T, K1WHS, W1XR, WW2Y, N1JEZ, KO4YC, WZ1V, N2SLO, N1SV, WA3NUF, WA2ONK, K2RMX, KR1ST, N2BFJ, W1AIM, N2GHR and N1DPM.
>   Total 18. My best 22 night.  I agree, activity is good.
>   
> 73, Me
>
> Ron Klimas WZ1V
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 11:04 AM
> To: NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
> Subject: [NEWSVHF] 222 Activity Night WZ1V
>
> 222 activity continues to grow. Worked 22 stations 7 - 9 pm:
> WW2Y FN20, K1WHS FN43, WB2SIH FN31, K1PXE FN31,
> W1XR FM19, N1JEZ FN44, W1GHZ FN34, W1AIM FN34,
> NZ3M FN10, KA2LIM FN12, W9KXI FN12, KO4YC FM17,
> N2SLO FN30, N1SV FN42, N1YCQ FN41, K1OR FN42,
> K1TR FN42, WA3EOQ FM09, KR1ST FN21, N2BFJ FN30,
> N2GHR FN30, and N1DPM FN32. Thanks for the QSO's.
> All on my puny 9.5 foot yagi with 400 Whiskies.
> You don't need a huge station to have fun on 222.
> Only FT8 was with W9KXI and I think he was just 25 W.
> 73 Ron WZ1V FN31RH
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