ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: KB4KBS
Operator(s): KB4KBS
Station: KB4KBS
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 6.5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 5
40: 30
20: 22
15:
10:
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Total: 57 Sections = 34 Total Score = 3,876
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
It was a contest that really appealed to my inner-masochist. To work as hard
as I did for 6.5 hours and to only have 57 contacts to show for it should be
down-right depressing. My redemption comes from the fact that I did work 34
sections - including some new ones. I used my 100W TS-450SAT and a slinky
antenna which was unfathomably better than the Mobile Hustler attached to a
magnetic base on a file cabinet next to the rig. I could heard stations from
all around the US and Canada finally, but being heard was still the tough nut.
Bottom line: I had fun but I need a better antenna set up. I can only imagine
what it would be like to operate at a "real" station. I'd probably
be so delerious that I'd get laryngitis.
Extra Point: Hiram Percy's Maxim struck again. Only during PH SS weekend would
someone be so inconsiderate and schedule a wedding on a Sunday night.
Thanks to all who worked me, especially those that took the extra effort to
pull my puny signal out of the mud. To those of you who said, "too bad, so
sad, try again later," just how much later? When I'm flush with mono-band
beams? I'm trying just as hard or harder to reach my goal of 60 as you are to
reach your goal of 1600. Next contest, lose the cavalier attitude or get
better hearing aids.
KB4KBS
scottstraw at mindspring.com
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