Somehow I missed this thread as it was going on, or I would have commented
at the time. (Believe it or not, I was monitoring and answering email plus
doing admin on some web sites I manage, while listening to the two radios
auto-CQing on Monday and Tuesday.)
Shelby has got it about right. When I took a six hour break at 05Z the
AVERAGE QSO rate was 122 for the first 11 hours. I can't describe the
excitement of such a prolonged run. My physical being was tired, but I
could not sleep. I went to bed, but my mind would not shut down. I didn't
even doze during that off time. I was very worried about making it through
Sunday without any sleep.
At 1101Z Sunday, I fired off one radio on 80 and the other on 40, figuring
it was going to be a boring hour or two. It was boring for about 90 seconds
until the first caller came in and from then through 2359Z, I was working
hard again to keep up with the rate. At 00Z, I threw on some clothes and
went out to treat myself to a wonderful dinner down on the water. The three
glasses of wine should have helped the sleep process Sunday night, but I
still had trouble shutting down my brain. Eventually I did get some sleep.
The never-ending pileup was due to everyone else out there, not me, and I
owed my thrilling experience to all those people. That was a strong
motivator to activate 160 and the WARC bands on RTTY. I assumed that I
would crash once I got home and I did sleep about eight hours last night.
But I'm not really as wasted as I thought I might be.
73,
Ed - W0YK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Shelby Summerville
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 3:54 PM
> To: RTTY List
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] The Iron Butt Award goes to.....
>
>
> Never having been on the receiving end of a "never ending" pileup, I can
> only imagine what it's like? Adrenaline is a strong "motivator", but what
> will happen when the adrenaline "runs out"?
>
> C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
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