[VHFcontesting] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies

[RT Clay]

 Yes, stations in the south can win the June contest (besides W5ZN, for example K5TR in TX). I even came in 2nd place high power in 2023 with my small station (5 elements on 6m, 9 elements on 2m, 18 elements/100 w on 70 cm).
The key is to work a LOT of stations on 6m. That is now a lot harder with everyone refusing to move off 50313. FT8 rate is just too sloooow when conditions are good.
Around here I usually don't work my own grid on 2m and up.
Tor N4OGW  EM53
    On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 07:48:10 AM CDT, <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 NOT necessarily Dave !!!!!!  😊

I don't live in the northeast and when I competitively participated in the June VHF contest I consistently placed in the top 10, actually taking 1st place in single op high power three times, once as WB5IGF and twice as W5ZN.

Its about strategy! Sure, you northeast guys can work more Q's but I can acquire more multipliers (grids!). The northeast does have a significant (exponential?) QSO advantage, though.

Congrats on a very nice score and effort. Looks great!!

73 Joel W5ZN

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From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+w5znjoel=gmail.com at contesting.com> On Behalf Of David R Buckwalter via VHFcontesting
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2025 2:38 PM
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Subject: [VHFcontesting] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies

Like they say LOCATION-LOCATION-LOCATION.

 

If you want to place in the Top 10 nation-wide in a VHF contest, you have to
live in the NorthEast.  Although this was a decent contest and I hit my
all-time highest score ever in 45 years of VHF contesting, I'm sure by the rummers I've heard, the multi-band guys in New England cleaned up again.
Out here in the boonies of south-central Virginia working nearly 30 QSOs on
222 & 432 is monumental.    However, it doesn't help much against stations
that are located 100 to 200 miles from 3 to 4 times as many on those same
bands.  Not to mention all the close-in 1296 and up stations in those
over-populated home-owner association run neighborhoods of the NE.  Even
with my first ever 6-digit score, it would have been much better had there been any enhanced propagation on the 2m and up bands.  Sporadic E propagation on 6 meters was great most of the contest, with a European opening in the beginning hours.

 

  

 Band            QSO    Grid

 

50M            265      156

144M            102      36

222M            28      17

432M            28      18

1.2G                3        3

 

Total            426      230

 

  Score: 112,240

 

 

de K3SK

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