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06/17/2008 | W7GK
Was not expecting much in the way of propagation this time around. Certainly no Es but the weather patterns have been odd lately so hoped for some tropo. Thought if we made 30 contacts over the weekend we'd be lucky. Sept. 2007 was a total failure and ... Read More
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06/16/2008 | N0EDV
Nice conditions from EN45. I just casually operated throughout the contest...had many other projects to divide my time between. Coolest contact was with K5TR on 2M in EM00 for almost 1100 miles with my 50 Watts! Most fun contact was about a 15 mile ... Read More
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06/16/2008 | NP3CW
For the last four to five week we were having good openings on 6 mtrs band to Europe, NA, SA, Caribbean and few stations from Africa.
I was expecting good contacts during this 2008 VHF QSO Party.
I was able to work only local stations until Sunday whe... Read More -
06/16/2008 | N3AWS
My software malfunctioned and counted some QSOs twice, although it summed the multipliers correctly. One hundred QSOs, one point each, and 56 mults for a score of 5,600. Operated 10 hours.
I operated QRP (5 watts) entering the single-op portable cate... Read More -
06/16/2008 | WA1RKS
Well,it wasn't dull for the most part! lots of short openings on 6m.Which makes for a nice tally on the sheets,although I noticed a lot of the big guns were missing,or made short appearances? I would guess that Father's day and the open with Tiger had ... Read More
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06/16/2008 | KQ6EE
kq6ee was at San Gabriel Peak (6000+') hold an umbrella to do cq contest on both day total about 13 hrs. Other hikers said that I was smart to have an umbrella. Saturday morning, I arrived at the mountain peak at 1:00 PM because I went to Catalina Re... Read More
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06/16/2008 | XE2MVS
They gave me to repair an IC-706 and that better form to test it in a contest in 6m band.
On Saturday I did not have opportunity to work the contest and Sunday only 4 hours, of the 21:30 UTC to the 01:30 utc.
I achieved 75 QSOs and 34 Grid, with a to... Read More -
06/16/2008 | W7EME/7
Aloha to all:
It was a great party for a change, fun camping and great all night round tables on VHF!
I had a few issues with crazies in the middle of the night and a 60 MPH early morning wind storm that sagged my antenna systems.
I ran 100 watts on ... Read More