[VHFcontesting] 222 Activity Night and other radio happenings

[PHIL MIGUELEZ]

Activity was way up last night on 222. Worked 18 stations in 13 unique grids. Conditions changed every few minutes, so it was always a surprise how easy or difficult each new contact was to work. Working K3SK in FM07 on SSB was a good example. Dave is usually an FT8 or really weak CW contact at best for me. Last night he went from in the noise to Q5 on sideband over the course of our QSO.
6 meters has been open every day this week, and reports of a house in NJ only 20 miles away from my QTH getting hit by a meteorite on Tuesday piqued my curiosity on how active meteor scatter was these days. I left the radio on overnight tuned to 50.260 MHz and found a ton of activity had occurred between 1:30 AM and 4 AM. A little too late for me but it's got me thinking about trying this mode sometime in the near future. A pre-scheduled nap will be required to make this possible.

The following is my log for 222 last night. Tuesday evening from 7PM to 9PM is a lot easier than the graveyard shift. Hope to see more local stations getting on and joining the fun.
CU on the Bands
Phil WA3NUF

222   PH  05/09/23    2307   K1WHS         FN43mj222   PH  05/09/23    2308   WW2Y           FN20qj222   PH  05/09/23    2310   W1XR           FM19hx222   CW  05/09/23   2323   WA3EOQ      FM09jo222   PH  05/09/23    2325   W9KXI          FN12ne222   CW  05/09/23   2329   N1SV            FN42ep222   CW  05/09/23   2331   WB2VVV      FN41cr222   PH  05/09/23    2334   KO4YC         FM17gv222   PH  05/09/23    2338   K3SK            FM07222   PH  05/09/23    2341   WZ1V           FN31rh222   PH  05/09/23    2348   N1JEZ          FN44222   PH  05/09/23    2358   K2RMX         FN20xp222   PH  05/09/23    2359   K1TEO          FN31jh222   PH  05/09/23    2359   K1PXE          FN31ke222   FT8 05/10/23    0013   K1FSY          FN31222   CW  05/10/23   0025   K1TR            FN42iu222   CW  05/10/23   0029   VE3DS         FN03fq222   PH  05/10/23    0059   N3RG           FM29ki