[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] K1DS 222 Activity Night

[David Olean]

Hello Rick,

I am very sorry, but I was pretty tired last night and missed trying a 
contact with you.  NC1I and W1QA were here all day and we changed the 
portable EME system from 432 to 1296.  There was a lot of running around 
with that, and after they left, I figured that it was a good idea to 
haul firewood into my wood shed.  I was beat by 8:30 PM local time and 
pulled the switch just as you came on the air. I am very sorry as it 
would have awakened me.  It was slow at 8:30 with no takers for meteors 
or Q65,  and I was having trouble propping up my eyelids.

The good news was that I worked 25 stations by 00:30.  They included the 
same ops as worked by GB Ron WZ1V plus a few others. I missed K3SK and 
did not get a chance to run with him. I did work WB2RVX, N1GLT, and WW1Z 
and W2RMA among others, and the activity was fast and furious for 
awhile.  I also found out that Milford, CT is world famous now for two 
reasons. #1 is that K1PXE has chosen to live there, and #2, there is now 
a brewery there that makes a great non alcoholic IPA  beer. (Athletic 
Brewing) What are the odds?

Signals seemed not so strong typically, but there was little QSB from 
what I saw from here in Mumbo Jumbo land.  I am also hearing rumblings 
from the secretive 222 MHZ Activities Committee that they are working on 
a new plan to honor one of our very own 222 operators. More details 
coming soon.

73

Dave K1WHS

On 10/8/2024 9:38 PM, Rick R wrote:
> I got on about 8:20P and QSO’d KA3FQS and WA3NUF but heard no one else and no further response to my CQs. Compromised QTH, power and antenna from the balcony in the courtyard, but always exciting to see the activity reports and the K1WHS soliloquies. 73, Rick K1DS
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