Well, John, your experience was similar to mine.  When I got out, I got 
out well, but a lot of the contacts were a bit of a sstruggle to make.  And, 
some of the old familiar stations just weren't there.

Oh well, I guess there's always next year.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: SRD this year


>I made about 20 contacts, about 15 NWS stations, and a few other contacts.
> 40 seemed to me to be very flakey, what was there was there but it kept
> going away, I think it was only the dream setups that were doing anything
> and on 20, I wasn't hearing much state side, mostly Europe though I did 
> work
> a couple NWS stations on there, 2 of them I also worked on 40 though which
> suggests to me that it was their position and setup as much as anything
> else. I don't think the bands were very good at all, if I stayed on a
> frequency, stations were up and down, it was hard if you didn't make the
> contact right away. I had fun though.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 6:56 PM
> Subject: SRD this year
>
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Well, this year's skywarn recognition day was interesting, although I
>> didn't
>> make nearly as many NWS contacts as I had in previous years when doing it
>> from the home QTH.
>>
>> This time I only made 30, whereas I know in previous years, I had made a
>> good 50 or 60 contacts when I did the event at home.
>>
>> I don't know if it's because conditions were so bad, or whether there 
>> were
>> fewer NWS stations out there, but it just didn't seem as active as it had
>> in
>> previous years.
>>
>> I did have a nice qso along the way with Lou, WA3MIX, which added a neat
>> bonus to the day.
>>
>> I'm interested in anyone's thoughts and experiences.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>