CAL QSO PARTY SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 05-Oct-96, 06-Oct-96
Callsign Used : N1PBT
Operator : N1PBT
Category : SOLP (100W)
Default Exchange : # VT
Name : Ronald D. Rossi
Address : RR1 Box 1543
City/State/Zip : Swanton, VT 05488-9713
Country : United States
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Op Time = 19 hrs 05 mins
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80CW 14 14 42 0
80SSB 23 23 46 0
40CW 15 15 45 0
40SSB 9 9 19 0
20CW 68 68 204 9
20SSB 113 113 226 45
15CW 10 10 30 0
15SSB 17 17 34 0
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Totals 269 269 646 54
Final Score = 34884 points...56% better than last year.
Well I had to miss the opening 2 hours of the contest to play RACES. I don't
think it hurt me too much though. My first 14 contacts were each in
different counties, which served to pump me up a bit for a sweep...I ended up
missing four: Yolo, Trinity, Plumas (did I just tune right past KF7AM because
there was no /6...duh is the sound of me kicking myself), and San Benito.
I took the opportunity to bone up on my CW. I fit about 1/2 hour of RUFZ a
day for the two weeks before the contest as well as TR in simulator mode to
get the hang of it (again) for the contest. Many of you heard the NR? and
QTH? which I used liberally to check myself. I got much better as the
contest progressed.
The bone-head move I remember best was when I was not sure of W7KB/6's QSO
number and sent "199 ok?". A nanosecond after I heard the dah of the TU
coming back I knew I blew that one! Well needless to say he logged me as 199
Oklahoma and still don't know if I was NR100, 109, 190, or really
199...despite my efforts to reverse my mistake. Why I felt the urge to
actually send 199 0K? and not just NR? is beyond me. I logged this one as a
zero pointer.
I listened on 15m pretty often. I made a 1700Z sked and got there early to
try a few CQs. I heard the skedee, but he could not hear me. A half hour
later I was sweeping 20m CW and no fewer than three stations just up and left
as I answered their CQs. My gut said they heard 15m open up and QSYed. I
was right, but I didn't find out until a half hour later when I switched.
Not rushing to 15m yielded my DelNorte (CW) and Sutter (SSB) multipliers. I
figured the guns would be workable anytime and I needed multipliers.
I spent a lot of time rummaging for stations I hadn't worked yet on 20m
throughout the contest. More like hunt and peck than search and pounce
looking for the weak ones. Calling CQ was just 15% of my QSO total and
certainly my Colusa mult, since KJ6PJ/M so kindly informed me he changed
counties and was in fact not a dupe. I have to pay more attention to the
mobile exchanges next year as well as those of the other seemingly non-CA
folks!!
40m was not as productive as I had hoped, but I did not get back on until
1600Z after my 0700Z break. My 5YO daughter sang at the 10:15 mass and I
made the Saturday morning pancakes for Sunday breakfast (missed Saturday
because of the RACES thing).
80m was big gun central some with better ears than others. One guy had an
STS signal that I could not get back to. He worked others during the times I
tried, so I know he was not in the woods or another band...oh well. I went
right from him to an S3 sig that answered the first call...go figure...it
took me off guard.
That's enough for now. Nice to work you all again (maybe the last time as
N1PBT)!
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73 de N1PBT...ron (rrossi@btv.ibm.com) <><
Ron Rossi H/P SRAM Engineering -- IBM Microelectronics
PS: I'm usually not too fond of cute phonetics, but I enjoyed 6 Fine Ladies.
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