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"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message ... Walt Davidson wrote: Hi Doug! Glad you enjoyed FD again this year. I worked 90 FD stations on 40m and just a few on 20m. Other bands did not open to the USA. Conditions were generally very poor in comparison with recent years. Interesting observation. We felt conditions were pretty reasonable. (maybe because the *weather* was unusually pleasant, unseasonably cool & dry, not blazingly hot like it usually is on FD in Tennessee!) We actually worked a bit more DX than usual this year - two DLs, OK1CZ, RK9CWW, 4Z4TL, plus one each KH6/KL7/KP2. Admittedly that's not much of a sample size. 20 was pretty good into Russia last night. We also managed 39 contacts on 15 CW and another 73 on 15 SSB, a lot more than we did last year. 10 & 6 weren't very productive though. (though 6 was open) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com For our club here in Michigan, weather was also great (a bit tool cool at night though) and propagation was noticeably better than last year although not matching what you can get at other points in the sunspot cycle. Forty meters was blazing with over 800 contacts combined voice & CW about equally split between the modes. Since we only ran 2A this year, we were able to keep this manned for the full contest time. Both 80 and 20 were also good although not up to what we got on 40. Higher HF frequencies did prove poor for us though, too. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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