[VHFcontesting] 222 Night is coming up

[Ray Golley]

GM everyone!
Yesterday I had an interesting evening on 222mhz with lots of activity (Thanks Dave!). Running only 85 watts and a home brew K1FO 18el yagi I managed to work 11 stations in 10 grids on CW and USB and my tower wasn't cranked all the way up! I think band conditions were pretty good but I still had to work to make a few of them! Most difficult was K1ZK but we finally made it on qsb peaks working odd/even 30sec segments on cw. 
Longest contact was with VE3DS at 376 miles on cw, Thanks Dana! 
The strongest stations worked were K1WHS and KO4YC, both were S9+.
Looking forward to next week.

73 de,
N3RG Ray 
 
 




> On 08/29/2023 1:50 PM EDT David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Don't forget that Tuesday evenings are reserved for 222 MHz activity.   
> There is no excuse for you watching re runs of Taxi or Seinfeld.  You 
> don't want to be looking at Facebook either checking on the latest smart 
> phone photos of what your friends ate for dinner.  Join the cool crowd. 
> Get on 222 instead. Everybody is gravitating to 222.100 starting at 
> about 2300 UT on the East Coast. The activity stretches out past 0200 as 
> you go farther West. There is now considerable activity in middle 
> America which is great. CW, SSB, FT8, MSK144, FM, all are welcome. We 
> are still waiting for the first slow scan TV QSO.
> 
> Another feature of today's 222 Activity night is that the Moon rises 
> here in Maine at 23:15 UT. Guys in New England will be busy working each 
> other between 2300 and 0000 UT, but as the Moon appears in the mid and 
> far west starting at around 00:30 there will be a few EMEers on the Moon 
> making noise. Best plan is to check the HB9Q logger page (220 MHz)  and 
> see who is doing what. I plan to be QRV on EME as we get close to 0100 
> UT.  That is perfect for working guys like WQ0P in EM19. His Moon comes 
> up at 00:45 UT.   Note that K3SK will be on trying with W6TCP in 
> California. W6TCP's Moon rise is at 02:30 UT, so expect some activity 
> off the Moon this evening. I should add that degradation is about as low 
> as possible, so signals will be very good when things line up. I plan to 
> hit EME pretty hard this evening looking for anyone with a single good 
> yagi and a few hundred watts. Tonight could be the night, with such low 
> degradation.  If you are a 222 EMEer, tonight would be a great time to 
> congregate around 222.085 starting whenever the Moon comes up. We need 
> signals for the horizon only folks to listen to!
> 
> I have been watching the Hepburn Tropo site and and looks like southern 
> New England will be happy on Thursday morning again, with tropo 
> extending westward as far as Missouri. Northern New England might see 
> some action starting late at night Friday night and then early Saturday 
> morning both down the coast and inland.  Sunday looks like a coastal 
> event with Nova Scotia involved down to Florida with extreme intensity. 
> The next few days bear watching as the system could change and go flat, 
> or it could cause another good tropo session oover the weekend.  Do not 
> forget to check the bands!
> 
> 73
> 
> Dave K1WHS
> 
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