ARRLDXSSB Score Summary Sheet
CallSign : K4TD
Operator(s) : K4TD
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH SSB
ARRL Section : AL
Club/Team : South East Contest Club
Score : 1,052,334
Operating Time : 33.75 hours
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Cty
3.5 81 243 50
7 151 453 76
14 362 1086 99
21 261 783 100
28 114 342 37
Total 969 2907 362
Score : 1,052,334
Note: All QSOs generated using only S&P technique with no voice keyer
Equipment: Ten-tec Orion & Alpha 87a
Comments:
This was the second contest weekend for my new station. It appears to be
working okay. My results were not as good as I turned in for the CW test,
but they are not too awfully bad for S&P only.
I've added a second Orion to go with the Henry 3KD Premier I got from NQ4I.
I've yet to get this second station actually on the air, but I'm slowly
working toward SO2R capability.
I worked out an S&P workflow that enabled me to stay on top of the packet
spots and get to new multipliers fairly quickly. As a consequence, I seemed
to have found myself constantly going head-to-head with the multiplier ops
at KC1XX, K1RX, K3LR and W3LPL. My recollection is that I beat them to the
punch a few times, but those boys are good. My most memorable moment(s)
were on 75M this morning around 1100Z. On two separate instances I got to
go against K1TTT and KC1XX (respectively) each time competing for a
different JA station. I made it through on one call, they had to make
multiple calls. I got to bask in the glory until later in the morning on
20M when they "took me behind the woodshed and gave me a good spanking" on
several European pile-ups. Is it my imagination or do those guys in 1-land
have a fiber-optic link to EU?
I'm tempted to make a comment about the "split" operation on 80M and 40M,
but I'm sure it's all been said many times by now. I hope that sometime
before I become an SK something is done to resolve this situation. It would
be nice if it were timely enough for me to actually enjoy it.
I ran into my neighbor Tom (N4KG), whom I've never met, in a pile-up on 15
meters. I managed to get him my phone number. I hope to meet him soon. I
don't know if he is a member of any other contest group. If not, I'd like
to try to recruit him into the SECC.
In closing, let me say that I'm a CW guy at heart, and I don't really enjoy
Phone. If ham radio and contesting were limited to Phone, I'd probably give
up and collect coins or stamps. (I'm glad I got that off my chest).
--. .--
Rick
K4TD
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