07/02/2006 | W3SO The June 2006 W3SO LM, from FN00 in WPA ARRL Section operators were: WR3Z, K4VV, W3BTX, W3EKT, K3IXD, ND3A, AI3M, W3YOZ, and W3SF. Our claimed QSOs, grids and score is: 6m - 735 QSOs 225 Grids; 2m - 392 QSOs 60 Grids; 222- 139 QSOs 43 Grids; 432- 185 QSOs 45 Grids; for a claimed score of 662,075 points. This was our best score ever.

We were on for the full 33 hours. 6M - Wow! We worked coast to coast but only a few FL stations. There were several single and double 6m hop opening on Sunday. No Caribbeans other than CO8DM were worked/heard. In the first three hours of the contest on 6m we averaged 80 QSOs per hour and 40 Grids per hour. The 2m activity was down and the signals were not clear, it wasn't AU, the signals were clipped. We didn't have the normal June 2m DX. There was a lot of QSB on 222 and 432. And late Sunday we didn't work as many 222 and 432 passes as usual nor as many stations as usual.

Thanks to the rovers for the many QSOs and Grids.

For the Wopsononock Mountaintop Operators, Ed -- K3IXD