ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: N6ZFO
Operator(s): N6ZFO
Station: N6ZFO
Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: SF
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 160
40: 109
20: 88
15: 345
10: 1
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Total: 703 Sections = 78 Total Score = 109,668
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
For the 3rd year out of last 4, I was visited by "the interrogator" on 15m. This
minor pest calls in on Sat of Sunday afteroon on my 15m run frequency with his
now familiar series of questions starting with "how far are u from the Golden
Gate Bridge?". He's quite pleasant about this line of questioning, which
proceeds to "do you visit the Napa Valley a lot" , "how's the wx there in Marin
county" etc, etc, etc. These questions are just continuosly snuck in after the
CQ's. When someone answers, he usually pauses (although not always - but then
he's not too strong). So there's a kind of symbiosis . . he helps keep the run
freq open with this chatter. I've found it doesn't really matter if I answer
the questions or not. After about 15 minutes, he goes somewhere else.
Sat night on 80 we had a more annoying visitor - I'll call him "The swoosher".
This is a stn with a big sig who talks his way along the band moving
continuously at maybe 250 Hertz/second. First up, then down. When I qsy'd 10
KHz down to pick up a W6XU spot he drifted through there as well, so he's
covering a little ground with the tactic.
All-in-all a fine contest this year despite the awful cdx on 40/80m Sat night.
By the time those bands opened (0700Z??), everyone in the East with any sense
had gone to bed.
73 Bill n6zfo
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