[VHFcontesting] The 222 Night as seen in Mumbo Jumbo land.
David Olean
k1whs at metrocast.net
Tue Jul 18 22:47:05 EDT 2023
Hello 222 Fans,
I was thinking that 222 night might be a bust this evening, as a pretty
strong storm line came through Maine a bit after 6PM. I drove up to the
shack in the rain, and was greeted by S8 rain static. I was really
bummed out. My LVA sits down on the side of the tower and does not get
the rain static as the top yagis, so I went with that and started CQng.
N1BUG was the 1st contact and he was very loud off the back of the LVA.
Things faded, but he was always pretty strong no matter where the QSB
was. Same for W1XR, who was contact #2.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE
PRO.REMARKS QRB
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
07/18/2023 22:55 N1BUG FN55MF FN43 fn55 220 MHzCW
TR 161
07/18/2023 22:59 W1XR FM19HX 569 589 220 MHzCW
TR 406
07/18/2023 23:03 WB2VVV FN41CR 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 123
07/18/2023 23:07 WZ1V FN31RH 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 165
07/18/2023 23:08 N1DPM FN32QB 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 125
07/18/2023 23:08 KA1OJ FN42FG 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 83
07/18/2023 23:09 W2TMA FN30HV 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 212
07/18/2023 23:14 KC1V FN31SX 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 100 watts 15 el at 70 ft 250 ft LMR-400 124
07/18/2023 23:17 WA2VNV FN30KV 57 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 205
07/18/2023 23:22 K1PXE FN31KE 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 188
07/18/2023 23:29 VE2XX FN25WK 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 210
07/18/2023 23:33 K1ZK FN34JJ 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 132
07/18/2023 23:38 K2AEP FN32OW 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 98
07/18/2023 23:39 WB2SIH FN31DD 599 599 220 MHzCW
TR 210
07/18/2023 23:55 N2SLO FN30MM 57 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 224
07/18/2023 23:59 VE3FN FN25DK 579 559 220 MHzCW
TR 273
07/19/2023 00:03 W1AIM FN34UJ 579 599 220 MHzCW
TR 96
07/19/2023 00:07 W1GHZ FN34 579 220 MHzCW
TR 126+-
07/19/2023 00:11 NF3R FN20DG +3 -12 220 MHzFT8
TR 326
07/19/2023 00:17 N1LHP FN42KM 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 61 using a quarter wave
whip.
07/19/2023 00:31 WA2LTM FN20MM 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 286
07/19/2023 00:34 KA3FQS FN20JF 57 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 309
07/19/2023 00:47 WA3EOQ FM09JO 539 539 220 MHzCW
TR 500
07/19/2023 00:48 K3WHC FN10 +8 -03 220 MHzFT8
TR 366+-
07/19/2023 00:49 K1FSY FN31LN +03 -07 220 MHzFT8
TR 165
07/19/2023 01:10 K3SK FM07th -21 220MHz Q65B TR Not
complete. I copied Dave every transmission! 565 miles
07/19/2023 01:38 VE3DS FN03FQ 539 519 220 MHzCW
TR 430
07/19/2023 01:41 W2BYP FN13IB 559 539 220 MHzCW
TR 320
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was running my new solid state amp that allegedly puts out 500 watts.
It is a pair of MRF-151Gs with two very quiet fans for cooling the
heatsink. The Bird 43 showed much less power than 500, but it was down
at the bottom end of the scale, so might be inaccurate. I never turned
on the generator. I ran off batteries all evening. I gave it a workout
and ran some FT8 and Q65 attempts and left the power at full on. The amp
seemed to not care and worked just fine all evening. My last few tries
with WA3EOQ at 500 miles in past weeks have been difficult. I was
expecting tonight to be no different, but a big surprise was seeing
Howard really peak up and was actually Q5 for several transmissions.
That is a rarity. So why was he loud tonight? I think we had some help
from the tropo princess. I also ran with K3SK with Q65B. It took me
awhile to find him, but when I did I copied every transmission from him!
In the past I have never heard him on tropo. Tonight he was in there. Of
course, he could could not hear my QRP 300-400 watts. I was tempted to
fire up the big rig.
Conditions to the West were not very good. There was a line of storms
over western NH . W9KXI thought I was weak, and a try with VE3DS was a
squeaker. I heard Dana OK, but he was having trouble hearing my smaller
amp. Dana seemed weaker than normal and never got very loud.
So I ended up with 27 QSOs. I never did actually contact W9KXI and I
missed W1FKF who worked Good Buddy Ron WZ1V. It could have been 29 QSOs
and only one away from the magic 30 QSOs that we all are still waiting
to crack. I quit about 01:30 UT. I heard lots of meteors on K3SK this
evening last week, I heard almost nothing. The meteors are hot lately.
73
Dave K1WHS
More information about the VHFcontesting
mailing list