W4ZW ARRL 10 SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 11-Dec-99, 12-Dec-99
Callsign Used : W4ZW
Operator : W4ZW
Category : SOHP/Mixed
Hours Operated: 11:45
Default Exchange : 59(9) FL
Name : Jon Hamlet
Team/Club : Florida Contesters
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Countries
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10CW 382 376 1504 53 35
10SSB 206 203 406 42 20
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Totals 588 579 1910 95 55
Final Score = 286,500 points.
SOAPBOX.
Christmas Dinners, kids' rehearsals, etc. etc. 1/2 hour here, an hour there.
Almost midnight Friday before I could get started and worked most of the FCG
gang on ground wave, K4OJ, AD4TR, AJ4Y, WD4AHZ, WC4E. Got most the rest at
one time or another. Several Q's mobile on the way to things. Conditions
Saturday AM here were simply spectacular! Europeans were 40+ over S9! Had
to turn the Attenuator on full and had to leave for my son's basketball game
with the CW rate meter hovering at 150. Of my 11 hours, many of them are
after midnight local. Who would believe a Q rate of 50+ after midnight
local on 10 meters! The Gulf of Mexico works as a great ground wave into
Texas and Louisiana! Periods of really weird conditions on 10. Sometimes
the band just seemed to drop out and take a rest for 10-15 minutes and then
back in full. Called Ron, WD4AHZ, to tell him that his signal was going
south late Saturday night with significant ripple, and discovered that
backscatter had most of the FCG gang sounding like buzz saws. My only
regret is that by the time my kids are away at College and I will have some
time to really do this one, we'll be back in the doldrums of the next
sunspot cycle.
Jon Hamlet, W4ZW
Casey Key Island, FL
"A little bit of paradise in the Gulf of Mexico"
One of the W1AW/4 Crew - IARU/WRTC-2000
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