I wish I'd had more time to prepare (due to understaffing at work, resulting in
me working long hours [including this past Saturday morning]). But it still
was a nice contest. While 6 wasn't open non-stop here, like it seemed to be in
some parts of the country, it was open much more that it has been for some
years of this contest. I don't run high power (I operate from my apartment),
so it was tough, and in some cases impossible breaking the pileups (XE2WWW
comes to mind - even when he was 20 over 9 on CW, I could not break the
pileups). Out of desparation to increase my ERP on 6, I did some quick and
dirty antenna changes to the 6m antenna. Unfortunately, it degraded my 6m
performance, and after an hour and a half of diamsl results, I changed the
antenna back to its original configuration. When things slowed down, I took
some time to re-wire a mic for a 220 FM rig given to me by Mike, AA9IL (thanks!
:) ). It's working, but my kludged together 222 antenna just didn't
cut it on 223.5 FM. Oh well, hopefully I'll have something better for the
Sept. contest.
My totals operating semi-QRP (15 watts on 6m, and 12 watts on 2m):
6m 37 QSOs 26 grids
2m 3 QSOs 2 grids
Total 40 QSOs 28 grids
Score - 1,120 points
73,
Ellen - AF9J
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