ARRL September VHF Contest - 2023
Call: WW2Y
Operator(s): KE2BJJ K2WW W2KV WW2Y
Station: WW2Y
Class: Limited Multi-Op HP
QTH: FN24
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 125 61
2: 100 30
222: 21 15
432: 23 14
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 269 120 Total Score = 37,560
Club: Mt Airy VHF Radio Club
Comments:
Dean, K2WW and newly licensed operator Nate, KE2BJJ joined us for a few hours
Saturday night and Nate worked a number of stations for his first contest
experience. He's an EE graduate student at Clarkson University and we think he's
now hooked on contesting.
We had a decent 6m sporadic Es opening with "double hop" conditions
mixed in that spanned into Southwestern portion of the DM territory. Once I
noticed multiple strong FT8 signals started to saturate the WSJT-X display,
switched to the SSB mode, spun the VFO and found KA0PQW who had a decent signal,
then worked him quickly. Went up a few KHz to call CQ, a loud caller, K2DRH
answers for new multiplier and my adrenaline kicks in. In just a few minutes,
snagged three W9 rovers plus several other stations, the run abruptly vanished
because lack of activity and my hopes were dashed with disappointment. The band
remained opened well for quite a while longer and I had to go back to FT8 in
order to make progress. The days of running stations on analog are long gone.
On the plus side of this contest, W2KV did a terrific job on 2m and 222Mhz.
I recall his excitement working WA3DRC for one of most distant terrestrial
contacts using CW. He heard Ed's strong signal on 222MHz at first after moving
up from 2m, but deep QSB kicked in taking ed's signal into the noise. He made
decent QSOs into FM19 territory as well.
For some reason meteor scatter activity on 2 and 6 meters was significantly down
from normal, but worked a couple of new ones.
Overall, We had a successful and fun time being in the boondocks.
73,
Peter and crew.
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