[VHFcontesting] Tuesday Night - 222Activity

[Allen Oldfield]

I got on just before 1900 local time, checked in to the ON4KST chat, pointed my beam towards Massachusets and Connecticut and...there was tremendous noise level in that direction.  I had a prearranged sked with K1PXE (FN31) at 1915, that didn't look promising. For 15 minutes, I called CQ towards both CT and then Philadelphia with no response.  At the prearranged time, 1915, on the designated frequency, I called Pete on CW (I was running 1KW) for 10minutes and heard nothing except ..."the noise".  I gave up.
I then worked WA3NUF (FN20) on both CW and SSB, WA3DRC (FM28), WZ1V (FN31), KC1V (FN31) on CW and K1TEO (FN31) on SSB.  Although Jeff commented about noise in my direction, I had no noise problem for any of those last three contacts.

Look for me next week.
Al - W9KXI
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