ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: WA6L
Operator(s): WA6L
Station: WA6L
Class: SO CW QRP
QTH: Alpine, CA
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 12 3
SSB:
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Total: 12 3 Total Score = 144
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
Taking a line from Lloyd Bridge's character in the move Airplane, "I picked a
bad week to give up using power."
My strategy was that if 10M is open, you only need 5 watts to work the world.
However, the opposite is also true. When 10M is NOT open, 5 watts can barely
work San Diego. My K2 was all ears and no mouth. I could contact perhaps one
out of every four stations that I heard, and I didn't' hear all that many.
But at least it wasn't raining. Wait -- it was raining, and that did
something to my antenna or my coax. SWR was all over the place. I finally
went up to the roof of the house and strung a dipole, so I had better signal,
but no better results on Sunday.
Tim (K6GEP) -- thanks for the laugh and the poem! It was the best part of the
contest so far. And it really summed up my effort -- "Stink. Stank. Stunk."
The new beam will be up over the Christmas break (this I swear in blood!) and I
will be back for the RTTY contest in January.
73,
John, WA6L
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