Sudafed, lemon honey tea, and Riccola were my crutches. All failed me in some
way throughout the contest (Well it's really me that failed, but it seems the
modern world runs on blame!). Drowsy, hoarse, tea is a diuretic ( a couple
full coffee cans), .... I was out of sorts enough to actually get a little
upset with some southerners (they called me Yankee, so I'm just assuming :-})
on 75m, 3.853 to be exact. Not too pissy with them, but WAY more than I should
have been.
I skipped right over 3.790 to 3.800 when S&P, so I missed W9WI there (at
least). I am pretty clueless about 1.8, so I worked and called most anywhere
within privilege.
I beat my previous best, but it felt like I should have been able to do much
better. I had a great time. The VT record gets to stand at least another 8
months!
Callsign Used : KK1L
Operator : KK1L
Category : SO
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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160SSB 18 18 18 11 Time on:
80SSB 125 125 125 38 18:00 - 00:15 = 06:15
40SSB 69 68 68 30 01:01 - 02:10 = 01:09
20SSB 224 222 222 44 02:54 - 05:30 = 02:36
15SSB 114 114 114 28 -----
10SSB 8 8 8 5 10:00
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Totals 558 555 555 156
Final Score = 86580 points.
Calling on 160m actually got me some action. Given the difficulty of most of
those Qs I was pleasantly surprised. Could not work Oregon right after N1MEZ,
another Vermonter did. I used the 80m dipole at 40' this time (not shorted at
the base as a T), and he was using a Carolina Windom at 60'.
40m really STB for some reason. It is usually much better for me. I took the
02:00 hour off to wait for better cdx. There were better when I returned. I
asked around a bit about 40m and most thought cdx were pretty poor.
I was able to move a pretty well equiped local, N1MEZ, through all 6 for the
VT sweep for a change.
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Ron Rossi H/P SRAM Engineering -- IBM Microelectronics
QTH: Swanton, Vermont
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