[VHFcontesting] K3DNE 222 Sprint

[Ed Kucharski]

My score is nothing to write home about but - I made a dozen Q's in 9 grids on 222! So, I suppose the effort made to add 222 and 432 to the station is paying off in small chunks!  Propagation here in the deep south was just fair - the dxvhfview APRS map looked much better on the screen than reality.  Many of my go-to stations in FL were not on (except WA4GPM at 283 miles who I worked on CW and FT8).  Top distance Q's were K1RZ at 439 miles, W8ZN at 398 miles and AJ6T at 351 miles.  Not bad for 100w in the shack and 10 elements at 45 feet in the midst of much taller Carolina pines in those directions.
 
Having the opportunity to work the same station twice, once on analog and digital, is wonderful!  Here, where activity is low, having those opportunities really helps keep me engaged and from pulling the plug after the first hour. To put things in perspective for y'all in the NE corridor...  I didn't even work my own grid and of the 8 grids that border my grid I only worked 3.  Being able to work the same station twice added 4 more Q's to the log - doesn't sound like much but it was 33% of my Q's!  I'm hoping it's only a matter of time before one of the contest software coders writes a vhf contest logger for this type of contest or perhaps a user defined contest for N1MM.
 
Hope to see you next week on 432MHz!  Don't forget to beam south!!!
 
73
Ed K3DNE
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