Baltic Contest
Call: YL2PN
Operator(s): YL2PN
Station: YL2PN
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: KO26BX
Operating Time (hrs): 3
Summary:
Total: CW Qs = 33 Ph Qs = 56 Total Score = 91
Club: Latvian Contest Club
Comments:
IC-751 at 50 W + Inv Vee @28m AGL + TR Log v.6.56 with bad config.
100 % S&P.
Motto: "Per aspera ad astra" & "No bis in idem":
It was pretty nice to see my IC-751 SWR meter at near 3.0 pit and
output pwr meter at 45% few days before this Happening - Baltic Contest.
No good grounding, no new 50 Ohm cable, no repairing Inv Vee stash/whiskers.
I suppose - 45 watts are not too much for my favourable one Contest.
Had no possibilities to overlook my antenna "farm" because of painful
right hand - yet working CW from PC's keyboard with mainly left hand.
Tried to use original files of TR Log, but my saturday's barbeque & liquid
"activities" during my wife's names-day and my school friend's names-day
was too unpredictable to hope to reach a serious score in this contest.
The TR Log and PC was used as a simple type-writer (i.e, like for phone Q's)
and code generating machine. All wellknown participants was far ahead yet
after first 30 mins of Contest. No chances to catch 'em on the fly.
My terrible crying into mike (yet no have any type of Digital Voice Control
installed) and open doors to balcony (there were only +2C outside door during
that Contest nite, HI, and little snow in St.Petersburg & Moscow after) -
lead me into absolute horseness.
Yet now, in Monday, I'm whistling like a woofer.
During Contest didn't watched terrible QRMs in SSB parts of band,
lower activity neither in 2000, 2001 - when 100 W was absolutely short supply
to break through the pileups. Any my choosed (S&P) HAM station obligatory
answered every other HAM excluding me, and only in bits of silence on freq
they payed attention to mine poor sigs. Bad done, massa Peter!
Exactly after 3 hours of going through the way to the Golgata in Contest
I took an unexpected nap (was tired enough for only 3 hours of "working").
And wake up at near 3 mins before the end thrill of the game. Was surprised
that my dog didn't said to me nothing to be more concentrated, she yammed me.
Made last QSO with YO3JOS and switched off into nap again.
The game was over...
TU nice clear band condxs and hope to put things a little better in WPX!
Let's make some Q's, guys and gals!
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