Stew Perry Topband Challenge
Call: W6VIO
Operator(s): W4EF
Station: W6VIO
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: DM04
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 124 Total Score = 672
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
I had intended to operate the whole contest period, but my wife's dog died on
Saturday morning, so I decided to stick around the house and console her (I was
somewhat down in the dumps myself). After my wife went to sleep Saturday night,
I made a few QSOs from my home station. Turned out that I had to use paper and
pencil for logging since the new Belkin keyboard I bought recently to replace my
old failing Compaq keyboard is a really good antenna (the $8 keyboard I bought
at Fry's on Monday has since fixed that problem). Anyway conditions sounded good
with strong signals from the East Coast, so I decided it was worth the drive
over to W6VIO down the road in La Canada where my antenna situation would be a
bit better. Got there about 2 AM local time and worked the contest until about 6
AM local when I just ran out of gas and decided to head home. I got home with
about 10 minutes to go, so I worked a few more stations with W4EF right at the
end. My best DX from W6VIO was Greg ZL3IX in RE66 (23 points) who answered my
CQ. FM5GU had a standout DX signal here (I even worked him from home with my
kludge antenna). My apologies to those who I couldn't pull out of the mud. Even
with help from our K9AY loop array, W6VIO is a very noisy location.
Cu all next year.
73 de Mike, W4EF..........
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