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2011 ARRL June VHF Contest

06/18/2011 | WV9E

Operated the lower 4 bands and actually had the time this year to get on both days.   6 was open as everyone knows, but barely by the end of Sunday.  There were so many stations on early Saturday that hunt and pounce was fairly productive.  I should have found and ran a frequency however as I did on Sunday as I could have ended up with more Q's.   As expected, 2 meter and the other bands suffered becase of 6, but  I did manage contacts on all 4 bands.     432 was the best on some paths, so I suspect more ops would have gotten on those bands  had 6 not kept everyone busy.

 Was great fun and hardly any lulls in activity.   I ended up with triple my best ever score for the contest.   Also  had some post contest fun as W9FZ was out roving and activting Wisconsin Counties for the WIVUCH Award.   Ended up playing radio till about 1 AM Monday, local time.   Hope to hear more stations in July for WW CQ VHF test.

73,

Dave ,WV9E

-- WV9E


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