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Gary - WB4SQ
--- Scott Redd K0DQ <k0dq@analog.org> wrote:
> Thanks to all the SECCer for the Q's. . . if you
> looked for me Sunday and
> didn't find me, here's why.
>
> Scott Redd
> Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired)
> Chairman and President, JSR Associates, Inc.
>
>
> To: 3830@contesting.com
> cc: redd@analog.org
> From: redd@analog.org
> Subject: ARRLDX SSB ZF2DQ(K0DQ) SOAB HP
>
>
> ARRL DX Contest, SSB
>
> Call: ZF2DQ
> Operator(s): K0DQ
> Station: ZF2NT
>
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: cAYMAN iSLANDS
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Mults
> -------------------
> 160: 204 53
> 80: 530 57
> 40: 428 55
> 20: 859 60
> 15: 1515 61
> 10: 1672 60
> -------------------
> Total: 5208 346 Total Score = 5,405,904
>
> Club: South East Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> 24 hour effort. Lost voice completely at midpoint.
>
> Bruce Sawyer, ZF2NT, kindly invited me to use his
> station which is probably
> pretty close to the optimum QTH for this contest.
> Arrived Tuesday night
> and,
> after some antenna work, was all ready to go by
> Friday. Unbeknownst to me,
> however, I'd picked up a cold/ flu bug, probably on
> the plane down.
>
> As the contest started there were more than a few
> cobbwebs in my mind (and
> tongue) but managed to throw off a 300+ hour. As
> time went on Friday night,
> I
> noted that my throat was a bit tight and it took
> increasingly more effort to
> talk. Things got progressively worse and, by
> Saturday afternoon, I sounded
> like
> a talking frog at best. By midnight zulu, I
> literally could only whisper
> and
> chose discretion as the better part of valor,
> hanging it up at 0041 with
> 5200
> QSO's and a not too bad 346 mult (still needed some
> easy stuff on 40).
>
> This was my first phone contest from DX in 30 years,
> exactly. Last was as
> 6J9AA
> (XE1IIJ) in 1973, which netted 10K QSO's in 72 hours
> (before 5BDXCC - little
> low
> band activity) and which, to my knowledge, still
> stands as the two weekend
> record. Although my friend Jim Neiger, who was the
> instigator of this
> effort,
> swears it's like riding a bicycle, I can attest that
> you don't just jump
> into
> the Grand Prix after 30 years with no effect. By
> best estimate, was in 3rd
> place when I stopped, but 8P1A and WP3R were clearly
> ahead by several
> hundreds
> of QSO's. Congrats to both.
>
> Worse yet, it took a week to come out of the tunnel
> after the stuff moved to
> my
> chest and Bruce, who caught it just after I left
> (you're welcome, shipmate),
> is
> still feeling the effects. Maybe that's why I've
> only done CW all these
> years.
>
> Thanks to all for QSO's and especially Jay, VY1JA
> and Tom at W3DOS for
> moving.
>
> Anybody got a battlefield cure for laryngitis?>
>
>
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