ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2019
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SO CW Unlimited HP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 9:08
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 140 31
SSB: 0 0
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Total: 140 31 Total Score = 17,360
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
My, how time flies ! I wrote this 5 yrs ago. Enjoy :-D
*Twas the nite before…*
Twas the nite before TEN opened and all through the shack
Not a signal was stirring, for outside it was black.
The dipoles were hung, by the tower with care
In hopes that strong signals, soon would be there.
The harmonics were nestled, all snug in their beds
while visions of pileups, danced in their heads.
With me in my PJ's and Mom in her thong
We wondered about lost DX and where we went wrong.
When out on the snow there arose such a mess
I sprang from the bed and forgot to get dressed.
Away to the window, I flew like a streaker
Knocked over the amp and suddenly was weaker
The coax was ripped and the kilowatt amp
fell onto the floor and the contest was now damped.
But what do my wondering eyes suddenly see here?
but a miniature stack of 8 yagis and 8 ‘deer !
With that little old man, so adept at the key
this could be our good luck, if only it could be....
More QRQ than Hastifisti and with power to spare.
Now Dasher, now Dotter, now all reindeer he yelled proud
We’re doing this right and we're going to be loud!
On Meteor, Aurora and Backscatter too
We’ll work everyone everywhere, til the tubes they turn blue.
To the top of the hill we ran with our tools
Now dash away, dot away, lids and QRM fools
As dry dummy loads that before the current that flows
I will rid you of keyclicks, splatter and gosh Heavens knows.
So up to the house-top the signals they flew
With antennas and amplifiers and St. Nicolas too.
And then in a moment I heard on the stair
DX being worked, that was extremely rare
As I logged quickly with N1MM (Plus version of course)
St. Nick was working them on Phone and on Morse.
He was dressed all in fur and looking very alive
And his clothes were all sweaty from working a P5
A bundle of coax he threw on his back
And he looked like a Slim, who would never come back
His eyes how they looked, his cheeks were puffed out
From an SSB pileup that was tuckering him out
His droll little mouth, behind the headset from Heil
Did not conceal, that rare DX smile
The stump of his pipe he held tight in his face
As lots of DX was coming and this was a race !
He had a big smile and a big gut like old men
Who sat way too much and then he worked DXCC on 10.
He was very fast and fat, that right happy old Elf,
I looked in the mirror and imagined myself.
A wink of his eye and a twist of the key
He sent 5NN and worked a J3
He spoke not a word as he worked the Morse code
“Mike, this rate behaviour , ya know it never gets old”
He filled all the stockings
and between contacts he said:
“Once the test is done Mike, you go right back to bed !”
Laying a finger up side of his lil’ red nose
He started another pileup and the din, it arose
“This is VE9-Santa and you are Five-by-Nine !
I’ll work you all quickly and leave no one behind”
He sprang to his sled and with a nod of his head
He worked the last contact (via long path to Z-D-8-Z )
Away the stats flew, to the A-R-R-L,
“I’ll be back next year people,
Perhaps from VK or ZL”.
He yelled again as he faded and went out of sight
“MX, 73 and to all a GN !”
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
Merry Christmas from New Brunswick
dit dit
Mike VE9AA and family
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As far as this contest goes....It was like being on a stake-out.
Long periods of nothingness interspersed with action packed drama.
Broke the tip of my VFO tuning finger 2 weeks ago, so that made it tough.
Every time I forgot.....OW ! ! !
73 es CU (all of a sudden) in the next one.
dit dit
Mike VE9AA 2 X IC7410 and an assortment of wiggly wires;
10m - 2-el @ 24\' - or the 160m antenna
15m - 5-el wire VDA
20m - Wire 4-Sq
40m - Wire 4-Sq
80m - Wire 4-Sq
160m - Wire Inverted L (more like an inverted U)
When SO2R, ZS6BKW w/15m add-on, for radio 2
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