Actual contest time was closer to 7 hours. Writelog
didn't track my off time (3 spurts of at least 30 min.
each)
Gary - WB4SQ
--- Bill Coleman <aa4lr@arrl.net> wrote:
> On 1/10/04 11:43 PM, Gary McConville at
> wb4sq@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >Call: WB4SQ
> >Total 192 88 Total Score = 16,896
> >
> >
> >
> >Soapbox: My first cw contest ever.
>
> Gary, you did a great job. You hung right in there
> for both our Qs (10m
> and 15m, if I remember).
>
> >Guess I was too rough with the Heathkit keyer cause
> it
> >kept moving around on the desk, and had to
> reorientate
> >the keyer many times resulting in sloppy sending.
>
> You also had a severe problem with chirp, especially
> on the first key
> closure. On 15m, when you called me, I distinctly
> heard MB4SQ, since the
> first dit was so far off frequency that it fell
> outside the range of my
> filters.
>
> The chirp made your signal hard to copy. You might
> want to check into it.
> What rig where you using?
>
> >FUN...
>
> Yeah, I only worked the first 5 hours of the contest
> -- I was having so
> much fun on 15m that I moved to 20m way late. Fun is
> definitely the word
> I was use!
>
>
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail:
> aa4lr@arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever
> fly!"
> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
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