[3830] N4VJ ARRL DX SSB SOAB 27 Hours

[Ward Silver]

Gee, this sounds like a *good* weekend from the West Coast :-)
73, Ward N0AX

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Bill Fisher, N4VJ / K4AAA wrote:

> 
>      160         29        87       24
>       80        119       357       51
>       40        166       498       58
>       20        591      1773       82
>       15        162       486       57
>       10         59       177       13
>      TOTAL     1126      3378      285      SCORE: 962,730
>  
> 
> I bagged it Saturday night when at 0530 I looked up at the computer and saw
> QSO's from the 0400 hour in the last 6 QSO's still on the screen, and not
> one was a mult.  Friday night was horrible.  Saturday night was worse.
> SaturDAY showed a small run of Europeans on 15M that I wouldn't have
> bothered with had 20M not been such a blood bath.  Overall... The worst
> contesting experience I can remember.  I think I'll limit my SSB activities
> to CQWW and bag the rest.
> 
> Highlights:
> 
> -Nothing broke
> -I'm still trying to think of some.
> 
> Lowlights:
> 
> -Monsoon that seems to be camped out over Atlanta since Thursday.
> 
> -Wasting a day off for this crap.
> 
> -Second night expecting quiter and better conditions.  Ya right.
> 
> -Getting run off of frequencies on 20M by NE stations during European time
> and when the JA's finally arrive... Five minutes of running JA's and
> suddenly someONE is telling me it's been HIS frequency since 1600Z.  Name
> calling ensues and threats of retaliation the next day among other comments.
> I'm still working JA's through him.   Now had this chain of events been
> reversed during European time, I would have been moving.       Not that I'm
> without fault.  I did the same thing to a K5XI operator last year under the
> same circumstances.  Guess I learned my lesson.  :)


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