Not the best contest ever but it wasnt the worst either. saturday 6M Es started out weak & almost unusable but as time past it slowly improved. Tropo on 144, 222, & 432 was pretty good but lacked activity. Was hard to get the W6's attention. The new homebrew 16ele 222 yagi worked very well as did the Ukrainian 222 xvtr. The recently resurrected Mil Surplus SS Amp modules performed well at 150W out all weekend. Sunday AM was up very early & QRV on 6M MSK144 MS by 630AM. The Random Rocks Screamed loudly to 1030AM when the Es on 6M made FT8 operation possible. For the next 4 hrs I kept hopping from FT8 to SSB to CW then Repeat. Working anyone we could on 2, 222, & 432 activity died off bt 2330Z. Swinging the 6M yagi out East in desperation for an opening, it quickly became clear my prayers for a Loud Double Hop opening wrre answered. The FT8 bandpass at 50.313 MHz was so congested it was hard to find room to work anyone. So one more I cycled thru the modes working many folks on each until the contest ended. Many thanks tothe 107. 6M stations in 74 grids that put me in there log. 73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk

.