[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] 222 Activity night

[ww1z_1 at juno.com]

I did hear Ron several times.  But he was never very loud and  I called
him several times.  My 100 watts was not enough. I expect conditions were
not very good. 

73

John, WW1Z


On Tue, 2 May 2023 23:00:27 -0400 David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
writes:
> Hi Ron and 222 ops,
> 
> Good Buddy Al came over for 222 night. Wemanaged to drive up as the 
> heavy rains had not washed out the road. I dodged a bullet. I 
> mentioned 
> that he was a Good Buddy because he brought a few cans of nice IPA 
> beers 
> and we had a great time chatting and working a few stations on222. 
> We 
> started out on EME and tried to work Dave K3SK off the moon. He 
> heard 
> nil and I heard nil, but my echoes were very loud. We quit around 
> 2300 
> UT  and between Al and I we worked most of the stations Good Buddy 
> Ron 
> worked with his new fantastic amplifier. Stations not worked 
> included  
> K2AEP and N2SLO plus KO4YC.  I did work WW1Z and WW1M who did not 
> appear 
> in WZ1V's log. We quit sort of early about 00:15 UT,and went back to 
> EME 
> because Al was interested to see how it all worked. I heard W6TCP in 
> CA, 
> KM0T in Iowa , (very loud) along with K3SK in VA.  Right in the 
> middle 
> of a W6TCP QSO, his amp misbehaved and quit, so no QSO there, but I 
> did 
> manage to work K3SK via the moon route for QSO #2 with him. I have 
> still 
> not been able to contact K3SK over the land path of 565 miles. We 
> tried 
> FT8 this evening to no avail.  I am now pretty convinced that my 
> Good 
> Buddy Ron, WZ1V has a Voodoo Doll with pins in it representing a 
> terrestrial contact between K3SK and K1WHS. We can come up with no 
> other 
> plausible explanation as to why the contact is not possible.
> 
> It was sure a lot of fun this evening although it was raining and 
> there 
> was lots of precip static on the big tropo antenna. Fortunately it 
> did 
> not last too long. I managed to work VE3DS with great steady signals 
> on 
> CW. He was a good S5 or S6. Many other signals were much weaker than 
> 
> normal. WA3EOQ said I was about the weakest he has ever heard. I 
> thought 
> he was about normal at just in the noise and barely copyable. It is 
> a 
> rare night when Howard is Q5. I am glad we worked with all the bad 
> weather between us. Al and I quit at about 0145 UT.  It was a very 
> rough 
> night on 222 EME. Almost everything was "one way" only. The Faraday 
> never lined up to allow many contacts.
> 
> With all our gossipping going on,  I was not paying attention to 
> what 
> contacts were made in other areas, but it seems that condx were 
> better 
> as you got far away from the storminess in New England. I saw a few 
> nice 
> long haul QSOs.
> 
> 73
> 
> Dave K1WHS
> 
> On 5/2/2023 9:17 PM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote:
> > Great activity on 222 tonight, TNX QSOs:
> > W1XR FM19, WB2VVV FN41, WA1MBA FN51, VE2XX FN25,
> > K1PXE FN31, WA1PBU FN42, W1GHZ FN34, WA3EOQ FM09,
> > W9KXI FN12, KA3FQS FN20, K1WHS FN43, VE3DS FN03,
> > K2RMX FN20, K1TEO FN31, N1GLT FN42, N1SV FN42,
> > VE3FN FN25, K3SK FM07, KO4YC FM17, WA3NUF FN20,
> > N2SLO FN30, K2AEP FN32, and W1AIM FN34.
> > I'll be on 1296 awhile Saturday morning for the uW Sprint.
> >
> > 73 Ron WZ1V FN31RH
> >
> >
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