CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: AA4LR
Operator(s): AA4LR
Station: AA4LR
Class: SO(TS)AB LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 8
80: 20
40: 39
20: 100
15: 96
10: 27
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Total: 290 Prefixes = 201 Total Score = 138,690
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Equipment:
Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100
Homebrew K1KP-style voice keyer (1 message)
Antennas:
A3S/A743 at 15m (10-40m)
Shunt fed 15m tower (80, 160m)
Comments:
For some reason, my comments didn't come through before, and my score
was all messed up. I'll try again.
Not enough time in a busy weekend to do this one full time. But, I
managed to put together a few hours to hand out some contacts and
work a little DX.
Managed to work NQ4I on all six bands within 2 hours of operating
Friday evening. Best help I could be, since I could head down to
Ricks to operate. Those guys did a tremendous job!
Heard F4DNW calling CQ on 40m for North America and listening up.
Unfortunately, he was listening on 7151 kHz -- which isn't legal for
the USA if you are running LSB. OOps.
Glad to hear NJ8J work PY2ADR just before I did. Ben's birthday
present was getting his radio fixed. Good to see he's putting it to
good use.
Oddest moment was hearing KM9P calling CQ. I remember Bill's old
call, I even used it during the SS Phone 1995. Good to hear it on the
air again.
Had one really bad moment. Called a DX station and got a report, but
I had missed his callsign. So, I asked for a repeat of his callsign.
He asked for my number. I asked again for his callsign. Somehow, this
really pissed him off, so he said something like "Negative" and
started calling CQ again. I called him repeatedly for the next 20
minutes, but he refused to work me. At one point he called me and
asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted to make a contact. He
said, "OK Bye", and started calling CQ again. I tuned up the band and
came back in a half hour. He was still there, so I called him six or
seven times, but then he disappeared.
I found the whole experience very disturbing. Extremely unsportsmanlike.
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/
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Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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