CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2020
Call: KU2M
Operator(s): KU2M
Station: KU2M
Class: SOSB20 HP
QTH: Wayne, NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 30.75
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40: 2115
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 2115 Prefixes = 952 Total Score = 3,983,168
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
At 10 minutes to 8 on Friday evening I was relaxing on the couch, watching TV
like a normal person, and telling myself I was not going to do the contest. I
was finally unwinding after a tough week, and the prospect of being glued to a
chair for 30 or 36 hours, screwing up my back and giving myself a headache
straining to hear weak coat-hanger-antenna-stations through massive QRM was just
not working. I've done enough contests, take a break, I said to myself. You
don't have to work every major contest that comes along, do you? The compulsion
to crawl to the shack and watch the clock countdown to 0000Z began to subside,
and I said to myself: that's right - I'm watching this movie, and taking it
easy. The heck with the (I've cleaned up the language) contest.
15 minutes later, I was running frenetically all over the band, making contacts.
CW! CW! How I love it! Activity was intense. The band was alive with signals
from all over the world, and they were all there for the taking. RA9? Boom! in
the log. EX0? Wham, got him! VKs? ZLs? Bring 'em on! Ws, Caribbean stations and
Europeans? They were all blasting in- and I was pouncing on all of them and
working them - and... and... and...
Then I must have blacked out, because the next thing I remember is waking up on
the floor of the shack Sunday night. My dog was licking my face. I opened my
eyes and since she wasn't growling, barking, or munching on my leg, I figured I
must have fed her and done other mandatory chores, but I couldn't be sure. The
whole weekend was a blur, except for something about screaming bad words at an
HA8 after he plopped down too close to my running frequency and began torturing
me with horrible key clicks.
I rubbed my face, which had grown a rough, stubbly beard, and tried to remember
where I was and what had happened. Then it started to come back... it was the
WPX CW contest! Oh no. It happened again. Another "lost weekend."
So I've been thinking that perhaps a support group might help. Maybe a new
organization, similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, but called Contesters Anonymous -
CA. I could stand before a gathering of fellow sufferers and confess: "My
call is KU2M, and I am a contester." Yeah right, who am I kidding. That
wouldn't help.
Because then again - maybe I don't want or need any help. Maybe I'm happy this
way, with just my rig, tower and antennas, and this compulsion to rack up points
and watch the QSO counter go higher and higher. What's that you say?
Anti-social? Me? Hey, I'm not anti-social - I work everybody!
But seriously, I really was not going to do the contest this weekend, and look
what happened.
So, to all of you who were also part of it - thanks for the Qs - and see you in
the next one!
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