CAL QSO PARTY SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 04-OCT-97, 05-OCT-97, 05-Oct-97
Callsign Used : KK1L
Operator : KK1L
Category : SOHP
Default Exchange : # VT
Name : Ronald D. Rossi
City/State/Zip : Swanton, VT 05488-9713
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80CW 1 1 3 0
40CW 33 33 99 0
40SSB 15 15 30 1
20CW 70 69 207 7
20SSB 193 191 382 41
15CW 18 18 54 1
15SSB 32 32 64 5
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Totals 362 359 839 55
Total operating time = 19:33 hours
Final Score = 46145 points.
SOAPBOX:
The activity level was impressive. I missed the county sweep again this year,
but I am closing on it! My best CQP showing yet. I had some family commitments
that kept me from operating the whole 24 hours allowed. No wine again this
year I'm afraid! 100% straight key again. I may do that for SS too. (Was that
a collective groan I heard...Oh please not THAT fist for another contest Ron!!)
I have to appologize to all the folks I asked repeats of and maybe plain did
not hear. About 95% of the repeat requests were due to rig problems. My
Ten-Tec Omni-D has a receive antenna jack with a relay which grounds it when
transmitting as well as opening the TX power from the RX circuits. 17 years
and it finally gave up the ghost. It was sticking closed on receive and really
degrading the signals!!! I didn't want to do anything hasty (like wire in a
big mechanical relay =;-) ) in the heat of the contest, so all I did was open
the rig up and see if I could clean it or jiggle it or whatever to coax it
into cooperating. That was my first break...early and totally unplanned. Reed
relays don't respond to "jiggle or whatever". I had forgotten that the rig
started doing this at the end of the Sprint last month! I had to put up with a
full contest worth of this. I made half my contacts deaf as a post. Again my
appologies to those that thought I should be copying them fine...you were
right!
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73 de KK1L ex N1PBT...ron (rrossi@btv.ibm.com) <><
Ron Rossi H/P SRAM Engineering -- IBM Microelectronics
QTH: Swanton, Vermont
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