I had a blast. I had not intended to operate that much but I have always
loved 10 meters and just couldn't stop.. It is such a challenge when
conditions are flaky like they were this weekend..
I only remember working 1 africa station. 5u7jb.. stumbled on him hight in
the band he hadn't been spotted and had few callers.. otherwise i wouldn't
have got thru.
-----Original Message-----
From: Courtney Judd - K4WI [mailto:k4wi@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:28 AM
To: Macie, Gordon
Subject: Re: [SECC] Fw: ARRL 10 K4WI SO SSB HP
Hi Gordon, yeah He kinda caught me by surprise also! Almost fell out of my
chair. I didn't have anything pointed toward Africa as not much comes from
there anyway so it was a real surprise! I had my all time high rate in this
contest. Took a small break at noon Sunday and came back, found a open spot
and they jumped me. The rate meter hit 389 for several minutes and then went
back down as fast as it went up!!! Thats the best I have ever done! The one
lonely JA Sunday afternoon was another surprise. I think I got him via the
crooked path straight west as I had the top antenna beaming that way.
deciding where to put each antenna at any time is really hard to do when
conditions are like this. Normally, I keep the bottom one on Souh America
and the others on Euro or Ja depending the time of day. Most of the time in
this contest I beamed west, N west and N east with the top 3 and keep the
tribander on ZL. Kept me switching for sure! But was great fun! cul 73's
Cort
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