The first 10 minutes of the 2M contest were absolutely cracking with Es propagation to Italy. I only worked one (I7CSB) but that was with only 10W SSB to an 8-element beam, so I was pretty chuffed. Given the presence of enhanced propagation I spent quite a lot of time in S&P mode looking for distant bonus squares before they disappeared. This resulted in working a number of squares that I don't normally get, including JO12 and JO22 and up to IO64 and IO94.
The first 10 minutes of the 2M contest were absolutely cracking with Es propagation to Italy. I only worked one (I7CSB) but that was with only 10W SSB to an 8-element beam, so I was pretty chuffed. Given the presence of enhanced propagation I spent quite a lot of time in S&P mode looking for distant bonus squares before they disappeared. This resulted in working a number of squares that I don't normally get, including JO12 and JO22 and up to IO64 and IO94.
Another good month on 2m, not quite as high-scoring as last month (also fewer QSOs and fewer bonus squares) but I did have some good sustained runs. 70cm was interesting, I kept a really good rate up for the first 30 minutes, with pile-ups at times, but then conditions suddenly turned dire with long stretches of no contacts. In fact I got bored of calling CQ at one point and so tried an AO-92 pass, to no avail - I didn't even hear the satellite!