Dick,
Believe me, after living in the Southwest and then coming up here to
WV...ya gotta have 40 meters.
Like some sage contester has said before...there's no meters like 40m meters!
73, Tom K5IID
At 08:19 PM 11/17/02 -0800, webform@b4h.net wrote:
> ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
>
>Call: K4XU
>Operator(s): K4XU
>Station: K4XU
>
>Class: Single Op LP
>QTH: OR
>Operating Time (hrs): 23
>Radios: SO2R
>
>Summary:
> Band QSOs
>------------
> 160:
> 80: 89
> 40: 27
> 20: 390
> 15: 272
> 10: 533
>------------
>Total: 1311 Sections = 80 Total Score = 209,760
>
>Club:
>
>Comments:
>
>Started out so2r. I built a so2r switch box and borrowed a DVK from a
>local. The
>primary radio went south about 02Z saturday evening.
>My son came home from college sat afternoon with new "special" girlfriend,
>so we
>spent three hours out for dinner.
>Started back on at 11pm local. Worked until 0930z chasing the close in
>mults on
>80m. Went to bed with 600 q's needing PQ and AB. overslept Sunday morning,
>it's
>going to be a long day. Found a frequency on 10m at 16Z and stayed there
>almost
>until it closed. It was a bottomless pit, for the first time there was no WWA
>station sneaking under me and stealing the frequency. The last two mults
>called
>in. with a Sweep, the pressure was off. I went to 15 at 2230 and quickly after
>to 20m and finished the contest there. Who needs 40m? The bands were
>great, the
>local QRN was absent, I could hear anything that called. A personal best
>for me
>on phone.
>Dick
>
>
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