CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: VE9AA/M
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SOSB/20 LP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): .25
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20: 1 1 1
15:
10:
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Total: 1 1 1 Total Score = 1
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
Radios at home are all unhooked so I decided that every time I had to go to town
this weekend I'd get on from the mobile. I had a log page ready on the
passengers seat.
Noon Sunday presented an opportunity for me to head down the road.
When I tuned up from 14.105 all I heard was 99% Europeans, and pretty much all
with their mic gain and compressors set to '11'. Some were well over S9....but
only a few were intelligible however. Nope, not calling those fellas.
Aha, there is Stan ZF9CW. Nice audio. I'll give him a point. Phooey, my mic
doesn't work in the car. Must be a broken cable at the rig's body buried under
the dash, hidden from view. It's been a couple yrs since I've done SSB from the
MINI COOPER.
Well, there goes that plan! Tuned by some more fierce splatter boxes and when
I got to 14150.63 I heard the K3LR team calling CQ for nearly 15mins and the
fellow worked 3 or 4 stations (One was an American). Not a rate fest to be
sure. They had nice audio too though.
So, to recap, I am NOT sorry (not even a little) I missed this groaner of a
splatterfest. (locals say condx were punk-maybe they were - no idea.)
-AND-
Every year I shake my head more and more thinking that nobody can possibly in
tieir right mind think their audio is good with everything maxxed out, yet the
amount of cr@ppy signals continue to go on and on and on.
Kudos to ZF9CW and K3LR who both sounded perfect to me. I had the rig's
receive audio piped into the MINIs' 4-speaker stereo system, and had it up
about 3/4 volume and I bet (had it happened), I could've heard a pin drop in
either of their shacks.
dit dit
-Mike, VE9AA in NB......FT-857D, SA-680S, pencil/paper, N3ZN paddles (normally)
+ non working microphone.
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