These SYP Events are held once per season, and encourage us to get out into nature and operate from the big shack under the big blue sky, and that is exactly what I did this weekend.
It's no secret that over the past 3 months the bands have been absolutely terrible, and for those, like myself, who choose to operate QRP only, contacts have been hard to get. Regardless of that fact, I set myself a goal of doing a minimum of 6 activations over the weekend.
Over the course of 2 days I managed to activate the following parks: CA-4877, CA-4872, CA-6003, CA-4882, CA-0023, and CA-4864. It was difficult to do, as between very noisy bands and deep QSB, contacts were hard to come by over the weekend. It was not unusual to call CQ for 10 minutes with no responses, and then get 2 or 3 contacts in a row.
Propagation over the weekend was:
Saturday: SFI=156, SN=167, A Index=12, and the K Index=2.
Sunday: SFI=153, SN=139, A Index=7, and the K Index=1
Best contact over the event was with Rubens IU1HJF, in Northern Italy on 20m SSB, at 0029 UTC on Saturday. He was my one and only DX all weekend. While I was getting 52 and 53 from North American stations, I received a 57 from Rubens. Needless to say, it made my night, that was my first DC in nearly 3 months.
It was nice to work a lot of my "regulars" over the weekend. These are the guys and girls who hunt we activators, without them it would not be possible for us to get the job done.
I'm already looking forward to the Fall SYP event that is held on the third full weekend of October.
Stay Safe Out There!
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