On Sunday morning 6m opened to the midwest, then the opening shifted to the southeastern US and stayed there until early afternoon. The propagation on the upper bands was bad again mid-day. But Sunday evening it improved and we had at least 3 stations contact us by cellphone and request attempts on all the bands. Even though not every attempt was successful, overall this was a fruitful endeavor which led to many more contacts than we would likely have made otherwise, and all the activity kept us hopping.

What a cold, rainy weekend. Temperatures on Sunday were no higher than the 50's. The cloud base had dropped right down to ground level; we could see the clouds "rolling along" the road at our 1840' hilltop. But there was no lightning, so we had full freedom to operate as much as we wished. The newly acquired Kenwood TS-2000X was the main rig, which is how we operated 1296. The 10m signal drove a 222 transverter. For 902 we had an Icom IC-706 driving a 25-watt transverter. Six meters was weaker than the past 2 years, and no DX this year, so our QSO with Texas station K5QE EM31 was our longest distance contact at 1264 miles / 2034 km. Best DX on 2m was Maryland station K1RZ FM19 (235 miles / 378 km). Best on 222 was eastern New Hampshire station K1TR FN42 (215 miles / 345 km). Best 432 was New Hampshire station AF1T FN43 (193 miles / 311 km). On 902 and 1296 we worked 116 miles / 187 km to W2SZ/1 FN32 on Mount Greylock, MA.

 50     144   222   432  902  1296
41/31  17/10  10/8  7/6  1/1  2/2