03/24/2008 | W4WWQ This was my first January VHF contest ever. Brian, WA1ZMS, was my only contact. It took about 5 hours to get that only 241 GHz QSO completed in the bitter cold, down the spine of the Blue Ridge Parkway here in Virginia. But it paid off big, setting a new distance record of 114 km. It was just by chance the extremely dry weather showed up on the same weekend as the January VHF contest. Here is info when the distance was 79 km http://www.mgef.org/zms_241_vucc.htm We both did a lot of listening, but just didnt hear any other signals ! Tnx Brian for introducing me to the new spectrum. -- W4WWQ