ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K5YAB
Operator(s): K5YAA
Station: K5YAA
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: OK
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 193
40: 8
20: 50
15: 212
10: 0
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Total: 463 Sections = 78 Total Score = 72,228
Club: Oklahoma DX Association
Comments:
I made some new wav files for the use of K5YAB. I considered speaking in a high
pitched voice but didn't figure I would be able to disguise my beard so I just
let it rip. I knocked some of the dust off of XYL Carol's K5YAB call sign
because I just can't turn down action on the bands and didn't want to mess up
my YAA effort at 83 for 83.
I got quite a number of comments from others. N2IC Steve said, "Jerry you
have all sorts of call signs." I responded, "You bet Steve". I
said to N4OX after he said "That sounds like Jerry at the mic",
"Do you know my husband K5YAA?" OX said rather sarcastically said,
"I thought you were married to N4PN". What? Me and ol Papa Novembah
love each other but that's the extent of our relationship. Geeze. Paul, I guess
we are gonna have to stop meeting like we do.
Even though I came to the party late I managed to get 78 sections. WY was the
only continental state I missed yet WY7SS and others were on all day. The lady
at WY7SS had huge pileups, I don't think just because she was in WY though. I
mean Alan KO7X used to handle modest pileups but he was quite a bit uglier.
VI, PR, QC and MB were the other four missed. All well represented in the
test.
I haven't read 3830 reports but I bet a ton of ops made the sweep. Finding
VE8EV on 15 CQing and having VE8GER call in on 15 had to be some sort of
miracle. Thanks gentlemen for arguing with the aurora.
75 meters kept producing right up to the final bell. I had no problems with the
pig farmers on 75 until two minutes before it ended. Some ol' boy started saying
"It's Over It's Over" every time my vox dropped. I told him not yet, 3
minutes to go and pounded away. When it did actually end I heard him comment,
"These last two days of legal QRM are finally over." Great
observation if you are a pig farmer but at least he called it legal QRM. I feel
so much better knowing he considers it legal to occupy a frequency especially
after all the years of operating in the armpit of amateur radio - 75 SSB.
Thanks ARRL - Sweepstakes is one of the finest gatherings of amateur operators
during the year.
73 - K5YAA aka K5YAB
Rig: K3, Alpha 9500 and Force 12 yagis. 80 meter Vee up 80'.
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