June 2001 VHF Contest from about 200 miles South of the US Mexico border with a great shot to all of Southern California and the Southwest US operating on all bands from 50 MHz thru 10 GHz. We were very fortunate to have this international team this year operating from the DL29 grid near El Rosario. It was an extra treat to have Ramon, XE1KK with us from Mexico City. We were located on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific ocean. El Rosario is the last place where you can operate with a clean shot to Southern California before having to going another 200 miles further south to get back to the coast. All roads head east from El Rosario. Many microwave DXpeditions have been made from this location.

Conditions this year were not as good as we have seen in the past with very few two meter QSOs into the San Francisco area. Many QSOs were made on all bands into Santa Barbara at around 400 miles with very good signals. Six meter sporadic E was very good with several double and single hop opeings to W1 & W4 lands. We all had a pretty good time this year. Weather was a little cool with coastal overcast and fog much of the time and relatively high winds and cool nights. I was delighted to see all of the microwave activity out here in the Southwest especially during a June contest. Six meters was great with what was hoped to be the second peak year of the sporadic E, 5 to 6 year cycle.

Pictures (don't have'em all yet): Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4

Audio files from several microwave contacts will be up shortly.

Operators:

JE6JYT, Key, 6 meters

XE1KK, Ramon, 6m , 2m & 70 cm

XE2EED, Roman, 2m & 70 cm

W6YLZ, Miguel, 222 MHz & 6 meters

N6XQ, Jack, 2m & 70 cm

N6CA, Chip, 902 MHz thru 10 GHz

Preliminary (incomplete) results: approx 140K points

Band	QSOs	Grids	best DX
50 MHz	438	134	W1, CO2, C6
144 Mhz	75	9
222 MHz	56	8
432 MHz	33	7
902 MHz	5	4	398
1296 MHz	19	5	415 mi
2304 MHz	4	2	398
5760 MHz	1	1	355
10368 MHz	9	4	402 mi

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