Well, there wasn't all that much "action"... The 2M Es early on Saturday afternoon was nice -- -- which caused some confusion in my paper logging when the 2M Es covered some of the same grids I was

To add a little extra confusion to the stew, I have noticed that some people, mostly on (grid) DXpeditions have been calling CQ TEST outside of contests, especially on MSK144, probably looking for

Don’t worry about the NIL. I suspect that most of the guys doing that are casual contestants and won’t submit a log. James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

Yes I saw this operating at W5UHF. At first I thought it was me as this was the first time I seriously operated FT8 in a contest, but Bill saw what was happening and enlightened me Those stations

Keith, I also saw a lot of non-TEST CQs. Generally I passed them by and worked the ones calling CQ Test (probably hurt my humble score but that's another story). The ones I did call or who called me

I can do 500 W + the 4 elements ;-) Haven’t tried MSK, but I am set up for FT8. Let’s talk about it... -Bruce

Anyone seriously operating this weekends contest and using FT8 probably had this happen. You're cruising .313 looking for those new mults or whatever, you see someone CQing WITHOUT the word TEST in

Sounds like you've got a good system. I need to work DM63 for my last NM grid. It's too close for E skip, but it's do-able on scatter with enough power on the DM63 end. Using one of the WSJTX modes

I operated on 6 for just a little while on Saturday in the spaces between dog class, shopping, yard work, and volleyball practice. But as others have pointed out, conditions were bad and few QSOs were

Not a great contest here either. It was shaping up to be a repeat of the 2016 snooze-fest when I couldn't crack 2000 points. Saturday was a lot like the recent June ARRL contest with

Keith and all - Here is a screenshot of DX maps I took on Saturday afternoon showing virtually no propagation to DM: Pretty much everything south of 40 degrees and west of 100degrees had no Es

To James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

Wow...what a difference a few hundred miles makes. After seeing some comments stations not that far back east, I feel like I was in a different country for this contest. This was, by far, the worst

Will look for you and Bill from DM66 on 144.200 CW and 146.58 FM 6m Ssb /cw in same freq I worked Bill W7QQ in the June Contest. May go to DM 76 if condx are good are good. A few points for the group

I think the Slack chat is probably preferred. You can also use the DX Cluster and N1MM will post to that automatically. James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

Where do you want us to spot? On NM VHF Chat page? Mike, N5SJ

Good luck in the contest from Reno! 73, Bill Mader, K8TE W6H NM Coordinator, Route 66 On-the-Air 7-15 Sep 2019 ARRL New Mexico Section Manager ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio™ Duke

W7QQ has graciously invited me to operate at his station for a multiop effort, so I will not be out roving. It has been a long time since I operated a fixed station seriously in a VHF contest, so this

The CQ WW VHF Contest is this weekend: < https://cqww-vhf.com/ > This is 6M and 2M only, so things are less hectic than the ARRL contests. You can also submit a single band entry, that is a log entry

Made a couple of single-hop Es QSOs on 6m tonight. Can confirm the calling frequency is 50.318 MHz. It's startling how quickly the QSOs happen -- only takes about 20 seconds!