I had the best first hour of any 2m sprint that I can remember, with 22 QSOs occuring in the first hour. That would turn out to be 56 percent of the QSOs for the whole night. The overall QSO total ended up being about average for my portable operations in this event over the years (for ones that didn't have ducting). My best DX, 414 miles, was WA4PGI who was in the cabin at the top of a fire tower at 4300 feet ASL. I worked a lot of stations off the side and back of the antenna this time for some reason, and had a similar experience in the September VHF Contest. I began noticing that I was working stations in batches. When the propagation was in, I would work a group of 3 or 4 stations from the same area, then the propagation gods disapproved and turned off the fun. Then it would re-appear in a different direction and I'd work another batch of stations for a couple minutes. Best DX to the north was FN35, and that one wouldn't have happened without CW. Best DX that I could manage to the west was EN93 at 294 miles. I was hoping to reach K8TQK EM89 in order to break 500 miles, but the troposphere was too turbulent this time. Maybe next time.
BAND QSOs QSO UNIQUE
PTS. GRIDS
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144 39 39 20
=== claimed score: 780 ===
START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CALLSIGN: N2SLN CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 144M LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 780 CONTEST: VHF-SPRINT-144MHZ-FALL CREATED-BY: hand NAME: ADDRESS: ADDRESS: EMAIL: OPERATORS: SOAPBOX: QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2306 N2SLN FN22 N2QIP FN32 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2307 N2SLN FN22 WZ1V FN31 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2308 N2SLN FN22 AC2KP FN22 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2308 N2SLN FN22 N2SPI FN22 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2312 N2SLN FN22 KA2BPP FN30 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2313 N2SLN FN22 K1MAP FN32 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2314 N2SLN FN22 W2KV FN20 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2314 N2SLN FN22 WA2VNV FN30 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2319 N2SLN FN22 KD2ERR FN22 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2323 N2SLN FN22 WA4PGI FM07 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2327 N2SLN FN22 KC2SFU FN22 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2330 N2SLN FN22 W2UAD FN13 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2333 N2SLN FN22 N1JEZ FN44 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2334 N2SLN FN22 K1WHS FN43 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2336 N2SLN FN22 K1BXC FN31 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2341 N2SLN FN22 W2GKR FN31 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2343 N2SLN FN22 N2FKF FN30 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2345 N2SLN FN22 KB1HY FN31 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2346 N2SLN FN22 K1KA FN42 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2350 N2SLN FN22 K1BX FN43 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2351 N2SLN FN22 N1TQP FN32 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-22 2352 N2SLN FN22 KK1CW FN32 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0000 N2SLN FN22 VA3ELE/R FN03 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0001 N2SLN FN22 K2QO FN03 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0013 N2SLN FN22 K1TEO FN31 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0022 N2SLN FN22 VE3ZV EN92 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0022 N2SLN FN22 VE3CRU/R FN04 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0023 N2SLN FN22 VE3EU EN93 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0029 N2SLN FN22 KF2MR FN13 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0036 N2SLN FN22 WA2FGK FN21 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0038 N2SLN FN22 K2SMN FN20 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0047 N2SLN FN22 KA2LIM FN12 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0052 N2SLN FN22 W9KXI FN12 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0108 N2SLN FN22 WA1RKS FN32 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0108 N2SLN FN22 K3MD FN10 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0109 N2SLN FN22 N3NGE FN20 QSO: 144 PH 2014-09-23 0144 N2SLN FN22 W1XM FN42 QSO: 144 CW 2014-09-23 0206 N2SLN FN22 VE2DC FN35 QSO: 144 CW 2014-09-23 0213 N2SLN FN22 WS3C FM19 END-OF-LOG: