NCCC Sprint - Aug 29
Call: N9NB
Operator(s): N9NB
Station: N3BB
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Austin, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 0.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 0 0
40: 26 8
20: 10 5
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 36 13 Total Score = 468
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
I'm submitting this on behalf of Ted, who operated out here last night. It was a
big night, as he has progressed with TR to the point where he is comfortable
with SO1R from his own station, in VA for the last year, and from here when in
town. He'll be back here soon to resume his full time duties over at the Univ.
of Texas.
So when he called about coming out, I said it was OK on two conditions: that he
endure my S9 line noise on 20 meters (hopefully gone soon) and...and-this is the
cool thing...he take a crack at real SO2R and "the dreaded F7 key."
I set up his TR configuration file with the added F7 CQ and we sat in my living
room for a half hour and mentally went through the ways he would be using the
"inactive" radio to CQ in the two main cases of CQing when receiving the
exchange when leaving the freq, and also to CQ when looking for someone to S&P
call on the active radio.
He did really well in the mental case and also in the actual on-air case. He
had one "triplet," where he had a couplet on twenty meters and called a CQ with
F7 when receiving the final exchange from VA7ST, and then was called by and
worked N9FC on forty meters. The main problem was managing the headphone audio,
to be able to hear both radios clearly enough.
But all in all he did extremely well, certainly much better than any of my
first tries. Yeah! He was so excited and so was I sitting in the room and
listening to one of the radios (forty meters) on a wireless set of earphones.
He said that twenty meters shut down and there were only a few like W9RE and
N6RO he could hear on that band as the NS progressed, but all in all, it was a
blast as usual in the NS.
Jim N3BB for Ted N9NB
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