Six was huge. If you played this contest and you were anywhere east of the rockies you know what I mean. We had a hunch that the magic band was going to open due to the weather and the openings of the past few days. We had a couple goals One was to break 10k and the other was to talk to one of our friends from SoCal. The 10k came in the DN81 opening. On Sunday, Eric worked our friend Bruce (KG6IYN) in DM12 from our location in DM89. Due to a new callsign we were an unknown until Eric said, "Hey Bruce, it's John and Eric." It felt good to give a rare grid to someone you've shared a grid with before. Our first hint that the west coast could open up with came the night before while finishing up a band run with WY0X/R only 10 miles away. We flipped over to 50.125 and there was K0DI in DM14, another station that we've shared a grid with. It was clear copy and infact sounded stronger than WY0X/R.
Not done yet. need to add more
Map of the grids we talked to on all bands. Notice where we had to make more grids to the north. Almost got DO62, too!
This was the planned route
This is actually what the rove looked like
Day 1: 480.4 miles
Day 2: 309.4 miles
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