[VHFcontesting] K3DNE 2M Fall Sprint

peter hutter pdhutter at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 19 16:06:44 EDT 2023


Hi Ed,
Like yours, our results at W2KV from last night's sprint was meager at best. Conditions appeared to be varying from nonexistent to okay during the evening. Analog activity seemed to petered out at about 8:30pm local time and FT8 was in full swing with numerous unworked stations, including multipliers. After caving intoFT8's draw, worked several stations. The wow factor's floor seemed to have fallen out at this point and decided to throw the big switch to the off position. It was probably a good decision, because it gave me an opportunity to get a decent night's rest after several long weekends of radioactivity and travel. 
European contest sponsors had the foresight to create separate digital and analog contests in order to keep the interest and the critical masses healthy and happy. 
73,Peter
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  On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:49 AM, Ed Kucharski<k3dne at comcast.net> wrote:   My meager results from the 2m Fall Sprint.  I thought activity was down, that being said, the fall sprints are historically not the most popular VHF+ events.  Many "big guns" that I typically hear or work were absent.  Things have certainly changed in the past 5 years on VHF+.  In the recent past, I found a SSB spike in activity around 8-9pm when WA4NJP calls his 2m net on 144.210 and net participants tune the band to work sprint QSO's.  I think I only worked one of those ops.  I refused to give in to the FT8 VHF+ pandemic (yes, you read that correctly) and operated the first hour and a quarter exclusively on SSB netting a grand total of 6 QSO's in that time frame.  After that I spent a good 20 minutes at the top of each hour on SSB and only netted one more SSB QSO.  I did not notice any significant enhanced propagation.
Thanks to the sponsor for continuing the support for weak signal VHF+ activity.
 
144 MHz Fall Sprint - 2023
Call: K3DNE
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: SC
Operating Time (hrs): 3.75
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 24, Mults = 16, Total Score = 384
Club: Swamp Fox Contest Group
 
Elecraft K3S, Kuhne DB6NT transverter, Lunar Link Amp (750w digital, 1+KW SSB), 12 element M2 at 47ft.
 
73
Ed K3DNE
EM94ae
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