WB2VVV was QRV from home in FN41CR (Foster), and submitted the following score:
Band/Grids/QSOs
50/11/28
144/15/39
222/9/18
432/10/20
903/2/3
1296/3/5
Total # Grids worked: 50
Total # QSOs: 113
Total Score: 8350
Single Op – Low Power Category
There was no E-Skip on 6 meters. Sunday morning did have decent Tropo down the coast as far as FM08, which was worked on 144 and 432 MHz as those were the only bands available to work at W4IY in FM08.
One interesting station worked was W3BFC who was operating remotely from his home in a retirement community with his remoted IC-7100 2 meter transmitter in FM28 putting out 50 Watts on SSB at the base of a 500′ tower with a small omnidirectional horizontal polarization antenna at the top of the tower, fed with some 500 feet of 7/8 inch Heliax, so only 25 Watts getting to the antenna. He had a pile-up going as FM28 is a rare and needed multiplier. He will be running a net on Saturday nights at 9:30 PM for those interested in checking into FM28.
I uploaded an image of my small rooftop antenna array used for VHF/UHF Contests. It’s all on one mast to aim at the station I’m working on as many bands as possible.
73, Chris, WB2VVV
Call/Op/Station: W1XX
Class: Single Op Lo Power
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Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 33 15
2: 73 19
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Total: 106 34 Score = 3,684
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
Nice going Chris with a great score. VHF contesting is not dead.
All contacts SSB/CW. Casual operation. CTRI’ers worked: WB2VVV, KA1VMG.
Nice scores. I made a dozen or so digital q’s and one on CW, but my hand-rotated 3 el isn’t too practical for a contest without propagation. A few times there were brief spurts of decodes from the south and midwest, but never more than a few minutes. Oddly, after it worked so well in the July contest, no one was on FT4. — Dave K1SX