My worst DXpedition score ever. I had so much equipment and antennas to set
up, I got very little sleep. No problem, plenty of time to sleep during the
contest!
If it weren't for my beverage with the K2ZJ amp, you all would have been
noise. Had a great pipeline to SA, but you can run out of SA stations real
fast.
How bad were conditions? For IARU from Greenland last July:
- I was further north
- had less power
- had half the time
- antennas weren't as good
and made 100 more Q's!
160 56 3 2 <- all Friday nite, not a single Q
80 169 4 2 below 40m Sat nite!
40 327 9 17
20 573 20 66
15 138 13 26
10 2 1 2 <- both zone 8
1265 50 115 for 430,485
Multipliers? What are those? It wasn't 'til late Sunday that I got zone 3
on 15 meters! Of course, then I got 12 in a row.
Laugh of the contest: "WJ2O, can you switch to 10 meters?"
The more I operate phone contests, the more I like CW. Oh well, on to the
next one. CQ SS, CQ SS!
73, Dave, WJ2O alias WJ2O/VE2, VE2NRK
>From Steve Fraasch <sfraasch@ATK.COM> Tue Nov 8 16:21:00 1994
From: Steve Fraasch <sfraasch@ATK.COM> (Steve Fraasch)
Subject: Part-Time SS
Message-ID: <2EBFA5BC@msm.ATK.COM>
I whole heartedly endorse Trey's part-time SS proposal, not from a
propagation viewpoint, but from a practical consideration: my family.
As it is now, I get only one weekend, and that's ARRL 160 (it's tough
getting that).
If the time were shorter, I could convince the XYL to let me participate in
other contests.
Otherwise, I hate participating in part-time efforts. I want to try to win
something.
Don't give me the "real men" do what they want. Plenty of the
damned-the-torpedoe types were just commenting a month or so ago that it
requires divorce, separation, bachelorhood to be an effective contestor.
Sorry, I'm not that zealous. Almost all the so-called "good" contestors I
know of are single, or have gotten into family trouble because of it.
So, I say let the spoils go to the diehards, but create the shortened period
entry in all contests for us family "wimps". Then, I can compete with
others with my limitation.
Steve Fraasch, K0SF
sfraasch@atk.com
>From Kurszewski Chad" <kurszewski_chad@macmail1.csg.mot.com Tue Nov 8
>08:22:22 1994
From: Kurszewski Chad" <kurszewski_chad@macmail1.csg.mot.com (Kurszewski Chad)
Subject: Using Filters
Message-ID: <199411081423.AA17025@pobox.mot.com>
Well...I don't want to beat a dead horse....but...
When CQing, I used a 500 Hz filter.
When S&Ping I used a 250 Hz filter, which gave me a MUCH better chance of being
closer to zero beat (as long as my RIT was OFF).
Simple.
Chad WE9V
>From Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> Tue Nov 8 14:38:08 1994
From: Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> (Trey Garlough)
Subject: Part-Time SS
Message-ID: <784305488.111623.GARLOUGH@TGV.COM>
> Don't give me the "real men" do what they want. Plenty of the
> damned-the-torpedoe types were just commenting a month or so ago that it
> requires divorce, separation, bachelorhood to be an effective contestor.
> Sorry, I'm not that zealous. Almost all the so-called "good" contestors I
> know of are single, or have gotten into family trouble because of it.
When I read Steve's comment I thought "who are the best contesters I can
think of" and the first five that came to mind are married, three have kids.
They are: K1AR, KR0Y, N5RZ, N6KT, OH2MM. Hmm. Maybe being married is the
secret! :-)
Nonetheless, I agree that time management is very hard. I would like to
see the ARRL include "hours operated" in the line scores for all contests
as done with Sweepstakes. The would give part time guys a chance to see
how well they did compared to people who operated similar amounts of time.
I used to enjoy this in the CD Party results.
--Trey, WN4KKN/6
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