Stew Perry Topband Challenge
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 00:12
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 10 Total Score = 30
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
A sad sad story. One of my favorite contests and yet I had no (working) 160m
antenna.
A Cpl weeks or so ago one of my 2 Inverted L's in my 2-el 160m array bit the
dust, so I hauled broken wires out of the and hooked up a single L and bypassed
the switching network.
Then, on day 2 (a couple weeks ago), the remaining L went open. GRRR
I frigged with it and *THOUGHT* I had fixed a loose connection at a switchbox as
it worked perfectly many times until (of course) Murphy visited.
Finished up the RAC CWC and had supper, watched TV with family, and then at
o-dark-thirty began the Stew. Hmmmm, everyone is S1 (or less).....how can that
be? Go to call one guy who is 519 and SWR is a bazillion to one. WTFrig?
So, I am stumped. It's dark as the inside of a cow here, a foot or so of crusty
snow on the ground, the outside temp is probably close to -20*C, the windo is
blowing and I have no motivation to go mess with frozen connections.
I put the tuner in line, shut OFF the amp and tune up my 80m 4-Sq array.
Many signals are now 529-559, but none of those guys hear me. I decide to NOT
CQ (or I'll likely roast something like a relay or my dump resistor on the 80m
array), so I S&P'd the loudest 10 stations on the band, bid the contest
farewell and that was that.
Sad but true !
Sigh...
HNY all !
CU (all of sudden) in the next one!
dit dit
-Mike VE9AA in NB
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