[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] 222 Activity night

[David Olean]

Wow! That is great, Ron.  Things must have been hopping for sure. I quit 
a tad before 7:30 PM and headed home for the Zoom meeting. It went very 
well, and I was very surprised and pleased to see Terry W0VB in the Zoom 
audience. Terry is 220 MHz WAS #1. Also had N9HF in attendance, so it 
was almost Old Home Week!

I did manage to work Howard, WA3EOQ on CW with pretty fair signals and 
also N1JEZ, WB2SIH, W1LE, and W9KXI in addition to yourself!  I am 
really sorry I had to quit early, but the radio talk went well. I 
discussed antenna stacking and specifically how to stack many different 
VHF antennas on the same mast. The question and answer period shortly 
evolved into minimum requirements for digital EME. I am not the guy to 
answer that, but suggested two yagis and 500 watts on 144 as a good 
starting point so that you could have some fun.  There were some old 
hands at VHF along with new hams who only have their shack on a belt so 
far, so it was a diverse audience!

Hopefully I can make 432 on Wednesday night. I have removed several 
beverage antennas as this week I am having a construction company come 
to repair my woods road up to the shack. The truck bounces around so 
much now that my fillings fall out!  They will smooth it out some I hope.

73

Dave K1WHS

On 10/18/2022 9:34 PM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote:
> Despite dropping temps, surprisingly good propagation.
> It was a banner night for FN41, 5 made my log:
> W3CJK, W1LE, N1YCQ. N1MIW, N1GJ all FN41. Also:
> K1WHS FN43, N1JEZ FN44, KV1J FN44, W9KXI FN12,
> KO4YC FM17, WB2SIH FN31, K2RMX FN20, K1PXE FN31,
> WA3EOQ FM09, N2SLO FN30, WA1PBU FN42, WW1Z FN42,
> K1OR FN42, and W1AIM FN34 for 19 QSOs total.
>
> 73, Ron WZ1V FN31RH
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