[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] 222 Nite Activity Summary
David Olean
k1whs at metrocast.net
Thu Jul 3 20:35:07 EDT 2025
I better bring three cases to be sure. Darn! That 222 MHz Activity
Committee sure is a tough bunch.
Dave
On 7/2/2025 12:16 PM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote:
> No worries Good Buddy Dave -
> More than half of us are too old to drink.
> Going by that criteria, 2 six packs would be plenty.
> Of course some of us just don't know any better.
> And then there's always the Hooligans.
> So, eight six packs should do it !
>
> 73 Ron WZ1V
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
> To: "222 >> 222Activity at groups.io" <222Activity at groups.io>, "NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net" <NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net>, "vhfcontesting at contesting.com" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 10:40:09 -0400
> Subject: [NEWSVHF] 222 Nite Activity Summary
>
> Well, it was a very interesting evening as seen from FN43 Mumbo Jumbo
> land. I suspected that there might be a little tropo squeaking in
> between all of the thunderstorms, and I was not disappointed. The
> storms were quite widespread in the NE making for spotty activity. After
> all, who wants to be connected to a metal box with a wire going from the
> box out to a big metal lightning rod in your backyard? I had a bunch of
> storms move just to my South, but the static crashes to my SW were
> downright "wicked". The edge of one storm came over here and we got some
> rain out if it. I had 23 contacts with 22 different stations. I worked
> no one to my East. All contacts were west or SW with the exception of
> W1AIM and K1ZK who were NW from here.
>
> My usual try with WA3EOQ was fantastic as his first transmission was Q4
> copy but then he built up to 529 or maybe even 539 on subsequent
> transmissions and we did not even have to keep to our timing schedule.
> Howard was still banging in and I heard him work WA3NUF and WZ1V right
> afterwards. I think Ron forgot to list his QSO with WA3EOQ. I figured
> that condx were pretty good. Before that I listened on FT8 when N8LRG
> was supposed to be on. This was about 23:45 UT. I could see a weak
> signal on the waterfall, and I suspected it might be N8LRG. It was right
> where he said he was transmitting, so N8LRG asked if we might try
> Q65B-60. As soon as I switched to Q65, he decoded me and we completed a
> 615 mile contact. W7JW was on from EN82 but we never got a chance to
> try a tropo sked. Would it have worked? I rounded out the evening trying
> some EME and it was just terrible how the prop Goddess toyed with us
> mortals. She wiped the floor with me and K3SK, N0AKC, W7TZ, and N1AV.
> One way transmission was the rule, and getting a contact was very
> difficult. I never heard my echo. Of course, that made me paranoid in
> thinking that my AZ EL calibration was out of whack. N4QWZ near
> Nashville showed up on the chat page, so we tried a meteor scatter sked.
> In 15 or 20 minutes, neither of us heard anything. I was starting to
> think that my antenna had crapped out again, so went back to EME and
> this time condx had varied enough so that I could make a contact with
> W7TZ and K3SK. N1AV in AZ was also worked but that was a easy QSO with
> BIG signals both ways for the only really great EME contact
> (signal-wise) of the evening. I went back trying meteor scatter with
> N4QWZ again and this time it was entirely different. I was hearing him
> very often with many nice short bursts. That was fun. EM66 is the same
> grid as AJ6T so it was not a new one for me. AJ6T was a great Aurora
> contact last year with him running 30 watts. Here is the log from Mumbo
> Jumbo land. QRB distances are in km.
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE
> PRO.REMARKS QRB (Km)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 07/01/2025 22:42 KA2ENE FN13FE FN43 fn13 220 MHzFT8
> TR 533
> 07/01/2025 23:03 WB2VVV FN43EU FN43 fn41 220 MHzCW
> EME 74
> 07/01/2025 23:04 WW1Z FN42ET FN43 fn42 220 MHzSSB
> EME 84
> 07/01/2025 23:11 WZ1V FN31RH FN43 220 MHzSSB
> EME 266
> 07/01/2025 23:12 K1PXE FN31 FN43 220 MHzSSB
> EME 265+-
> 07/01/2025 23:15 K1OR FN42IR FN43 FN42 220 MHzSSB
> EME 79
> 07/01/2025 23:24 W1AIM FN34 FN43 fn34 220 MHzSSB
> EME 203+-
> 07/01/2025 23:24 N1JEZ FN44AR FN43 220 MHzSSB
> EME 168
> 07/01/2025 23:25 W1AUV FN32II FN43 220 MHzSSB
> EME 223
> 07/01/2025 23:34 W9KXI FN12NE FN43 fn12 220 MHzFT8
> TR 501
> 07/01/2025 23:45 N8LRG EN80VI -25 -21 220 MHzQ65
> TR 990
> 07/01/2025 23:55 WA3NUF FN20KE FN43 fn20 220 MHzSSB
> TR 496
> 07/01/2025 23:57 W9KXI FN12NE FN43 fn12 220 MHzSSB
> TR 501
> 07/02/2025 00:02 N2JMH FN12BW FN43 fn12 220 MHzSSB
> TR 563
> 07/02/2025 00:06 W2BYP FN13IB FN43 fn13 220 MHzFT8
> TR 514
> 07/02/2025 00:11 W2CCC FN23MH FN43 fn23 220 MHzSSB
> TR 323
> 07/02/2025 00:16 K2AEP FN32OW FN43 fn32 220 MHzCW
> TR 157
> 07/02/2025 00:27 WA3EOQ FM09JO FN43 220 MHzCW
> TR 805
> 07/02/2025 00:56 K1ZK FN25BK FN43 fn34 220 MHzFT8
> TR 451
> 07/02/2025 01:48 W7TZ CN83IA FN43 cn83 220 MHzQ65
> EME 4168
> 07/02/2025 01:56 N1AV DM43FF FN43 DM43 220 MHzQ65
> EME 3675
> 07/02/2025 02:09 K3SK FM07TJ -30 -24 220 MHzQ65
> EME 915
> 07/02/2025 02:28 N4QWZ EM66OK FN43 EM66 220 MHzFSK
> EME 1552
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Number of QSO listed: 23
>
> I did work a new station on 222 MHz, W2CCC in FN23. That was very cool
> and it was very nice to see FN23 active now on 222 MHz. W2CCC was worked
> on SSB with QSB but signals were mostly Q5 on this end. It was fun to
> see all the activity to the West with W2CCC, KA2ENE, W2BYP, N2JMH and
> others all working each other. They also had plenty of success
> contacting N8LRG. I would say it was a great night marred only by the
> nasty storms along the East Coast.
>
> I looked over the list of contacts last night, and that translates to
> almost four six packs of beer that I need to bring if everyone shows up
> at the NEWS picnic. Yikes. I wish the 222 MHz Activity Committee would
> have some compassion for us old people.
>
> 73
>
> dave K1WHS
>
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