Callsign: WQ5G
Operator: WQ5G
Category: SO
Power: 100W
Name: Steve Runyon
402 Sage Boot Dr
Pflugerville, TX 78660
Default exchange: Steve Texas
Team/Club: Big Blue Contesters
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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160SSB 4 4 4 1 (not my strong band -:))
80SSB 55 55 55 25
40SSB 126 126 126 36
20SSB 127 127 127 35
15SSB 135 135 135 36 a pleasant surprise
10SSB 3 2 2 2 no surprise
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Totals 450 449 449 135
Final Score = 60615
Comments: Had a lot of fun. Late getting on (1836Z) as the logging pgm
kept 'hanging' on my borrowed ThinkPad under DOS. Finally ran it in
a DOS window under OS/2 and it behaved quite nicely... hmmm. Anyway,
got on at 1836 and S&P for a while until I could find a spot to call CQ
on 15m, and still managed to get 118 QSOs in that first 60 minutes. Nice!
Well, then the battery died and I had to scramble to find the transformer
and get it back up...
Stayed on 15m too long, then did the same on 20. S&P'd way too often
looking for mults, shoulda just hung in there calling CQ more.
All in all, I'm happy - bettered my last score by over 100 QSOs.
Thought I'd done pretty well until I heard some of the scores on
3830 afterward! I mean, really - 800, 900, 1000 QSOs?? And Dave, K6LL,
1200???? That's amazing to me!!! And I was TRYING!
Got a long way to go and a lot to learn I see! (I once sent K6LL a
note telling him how he was solid copy on my dummy load on 20m!!
He sure puts in a big signal here in central Texas, but still... 1200???)
Good grief! 120 an hour AVERAGE?? All I can say is "WAY TO GO DAVE!"
73 de Steve
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