01/27/2004 | K0AWU Fun contest as always from EN37ed Northern Minnesota. At 15,958pts my best January contest in the last 7 years and my 3rd best VHF/UHF contest of any type. Activity was very good during the first few hours of the contest with 71 contacts of the 161 total in the first 3hrs. Sunday was very slow all day. 11% of my score was from W0AMT/R and W9FZ/R. Enjoyed a 2m EN43 contact with the K0PG/R, K9ILT/R team too. It had been a long time since I had worked Pat and Tim. Thank you rovers!

50Q/28Grids 6 meters, 74Q/30Grids 2 meters, 16Q/10Grids 222Mhz, 19Q/9Grids 432Mhz and 2Q/2Grids 1296Mhz. Conditions at best, would be described as "ok". No 6m Es, but I did have some AU Saturday with 20 contacts on 2m and 6m combined. 16 FSK441 (WSJT meteor scatter) contacts on 2 and 6 meters kept me company during the nighttime hours, almost half of this group were random contacts. Best tropo DX was with K2DRH EN41 at 410miles on 6,2,222,432. N0URW EN41 at 406 miles was worked on 6 and 2m during the last hour of the contest.

Thanks for the contacts and don't stay away from the radio! -- K0AWU