[VHFcontesting] VHFcontesting Digest, Vol 244, Issue 16

Jeff Townsend WB8LYJ wb8lyj at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 11:39:35 EDT 2023


I was out roving last December for the Geminids.
I made some non MS contacts on 2m and 70cm at around 400 - 450 miles using Q65 30C.
No reason 222 wouldn’t work as well.

Jeff
WB8LYJ

> On Apr 20, 2023, at 9:29 AM, k3sk at buckwalter.co wrote:
> 
> I had a decent night working the 222 Sprint.   I logged 20 contacts in 14
> Grids.  For you guys up there in the middle of 222 Land (New England) that's
> a lot of contacts down here in southern Virginia.   I worked 2-SSB, 1-CW,
> 1-FM and the remainder were FT8.  I also heard several others that just
> faded away and never heard again.   I tried unsuccessfully MSK with W5EME.
> Band conditions were "variable" at best.   VE3NS went from -17 to +1 in
> about 5 seconds.    Maybe some of us should give Q65 a try to see how well
> it does for terrestrial.  Maybe one of the regular Tuesday nights I'll put
> out some calls in that mode.    
> 
> de K3SK
> FM07th
> 
> 
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