SOHP UNAssisted
KK1L 25 117504 295 136
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
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80SSB 45 43 120 26
40SSB 70 69 207 36
20SSB 148 147 432 54
15SSB 37 35 105 20
10SSB 1 1 0 0
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Totals 301 295 864 136
25.25 hours operating time
Final Score = 117504 points.
Ten-Tec Omni-D
Collins 30L-1
Butternut HF-6V
Soapbox:
Well this is my first time running with an amplifier in a contest. My 30L-1
was running on pretty much three tubes for 600W output. The PA was working
well until I turned it on after my Sunday morning sleep...lost the only
remaining original electrolytic. I'll tell you nearly screaming in frustration
with 100W PEP is NOTHING like 600W! With the PA I found that under contest
conditions my output at least met my hearing capability. I thought that with
so few responses to my CQs that I was being quite the alligator...all the
reports of poor conditions have convinced me otherwise.
The contest was at it's worst VERY frustrating. I quit Sunday afternoon after
I noticed that I hadn't made a Q in an hour (well there was one dupe in
there)! 21 Qs in 2.5 hours...not for lack of trying mind you! I might have
just roughed it out until the end if I hadn't gotten so little sleep the week
prior (5 hours was my best night all week)...I just could not keep my eyes
open. ENOUGH EXCUSES. Real contesting is not for sissies who complain about
sleep deprivation! Whip me with a rg174-o-nine tails! Actually I should rig
up some sort of something in my chair to shock me awake when the rate falls
too low. :-)
Nearly the most exciting moment of the contest came when my wife came running
into the shack Saturday morning at 13:15Z telling my that my ambulance crew
was calling from the bay wondering if I was going to be responding to the call
we just got! What...huh...on duty!?!?!? Am I dreaming!?! Holy sh#@! So much
for the EU off to a different kind of run and PRONTO...unresponsive male...not
a good thing to miss being the crew chief and only advanced tech on the crew!
IV ringers lactate with 50mg D50 bolus and a quick ride to the hospital later
and I'm back on the air. Diabetics are just about our most dramatic calls.
No more calls until early Sunday morning which actually woke me out of bed
early. It was a milk run (frequent flyer) and resulted in a pair of KH8's
I would not have gotten otherwise.
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73 de KK1L ex N1PBT...ron (rrossi@btv.ibm.com) <><
Ron Rossi H/P SRAM Engineering -- IBM Microelectronics
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