Call: AA0OB
Name: Greg
Sectoin: MN
Hours: 10
Band QSO's Mults Ant's
160 1 1 80 meter dipole at 25 feet
80 57 31 80 meter dipole at 25 feet
40 133 45 sloper off of roof tower at 30 feet
20 232 43 Explorer 14 tribander at 33 feet
15 64 25 same
10 165 25 same
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652 x 170 = 110,840
Rig: 1000D 150 watts
S/W: NA
Comments: Boy, conditions were great! Much better than CW. Ten
really opened up to the South and East here for several hours.
Low points: S5 line noise on 10 that the noise blanker wouldn't
even touch. I could tell there were many calling but, I couldn't
get copy through the noise. It would kill me to run across my
friend Jeff, AA0SQ, and hear him whipping them off and pulling
ahead of me on 10! Next low point: Having to quit during prime
time to go to a birthday BBQ for over a hour. I comtemplated not
showing up but, knew the pain that I would feel from the XYL would
be more horrible than missing some Q's! Fourtunatly she allowed me
to make only a brief appearance. She did say even after explaining it
to the party goers why I rushed in and out, they still had a blank look
on thier face. Wendy, my XYL, explained to them that contesting is
temporary insanity that infects hamsters, her pet term for us, on
certain weekends. It is best to just throw food down to the
basement and try not to look the infected hamster directly in the
eye for fear the insanity could spread. (She has learned to accept
all this with quite a sense of humor.) High point: Having a 90 Q
hour, my best from my own station!
What a great time!
73,
Greg AA0OB
Greg Fields AA0OB
aa0ob@skypoint.com
Minneapolis, Minnesota
U.S.A.
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