[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] 222 Activity Night May 4, 2021

[Ron Klimas]

Yup good night 10 Qs 9 grids in one fun hour.  
best DX's VE3DS 395 miles, KO4YC 353 miles. 
All with my tiny 9.5 foot M2 beam and 400 Whiskies. 
Looking forward to next week. 
73 Ron WZ1V FN31MP
    On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 9:44:39 AM EDT, David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net> wrote:  
 
 Another Tuesday night and another FUN time on 222 MHz with a goodly 
amount of activity.  I mentioned previously that as the warmer weather 
approaches, we should start to see better propagation on the VHF bands. 
That was definitely the case last night.  I sensed a small improvement 
in conditions. VE3DS had a fantastic tropo peak after we had struggled 
to make a contact. He had been copyable all the time, but very weak and 
he was having trouble hearing me due to man made noise issues.  I worked 
VE3DS last week with weak signals, and the week before that, we missed a 
QSO as he could not hear me at all.  So after our QSO last night, he was 
calling CQ and was getting much louder. I listened to his signal 
increasing, and in a short amount of time, it built up to 579 and was 
actually loud!  I called again and had a much better signal report to 
give! VE3DS is 430 miles away from me.  The same happened with KO4YC. I 
was calling CQ on CW and had the bandwidth narrowed up to 400 Hz, 
expecting to hear a weak and watery signal coming back (If at all) I got 
a response on SSB that was very loud. I figured someone in Massachusetts 
was calling me. Switching to SSB bandwidths I was surprised to hear 
KO4YC calling. Cornell was peaking 5X7. He is 510 miles away. I have not 
been able to contact KO4YC in the last two Tuesday sessions.

There was a pretty good group on looking for contacts. K1PXE had a great 
signal on SSB even with his yagi stuck southwest. We had a nice chat 
talking about the old days. (We were teenagers talking on 2M AM phone 
back in 1962 with Heath Twoers and Goonie Boxes.) I looked at my log 
after the evenings excitement and saw 16 QSOs. So thank you to all who 
managed to get on. Thanks also to those who tried and did not have much 
success. VE2XX had SWR issues that prevented any contacts. I hope you 
get things fixed with some daylight and dry weather, Stu.  Thanks also 
to those who tried "impossible" contacts.  W8RU and AA9MY were in there 
trying. I heard some nice meteor pings on them both.

CU next week I hope.

Dave K1WHS


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