[3830] CQWW SSB KF9YR SOAB(A) HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: KF9YR
Operator(s): KF9YR
Station: KF9YR

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:    0     0        0
   80:    1     1        1
   40:   37    11       25
   20:  249    23       93
   15:  272    25       97
   10:  232    24       83
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Total:  791    84      299  Total Score = 824,982

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Comments:

The week before this contest my wife had great news.  She was taking the kids to
a water park for the weekend so I could "play on the radio" all weekend.

I went to a seminar on Wednesday and had a sore throat, on Thursday I visited a
doctor and received a shot to clear up the strep throat he diagnosed.  

On Friday my voice was hoarse and I heard the solar flare was going to make
conditions terrible. 

Saturday 00:30, I packed the car and put the kids to bed and turned the radio
on.  

I worked around 100 contacts on 20 meters then switched to 40.  I couldn't
believe how bad the conditions were,  I tried answering a few of the cq's I
could dig out and decided to go to bed and rest my hoarse voice.

I worked S&P exclusively since I could quit anytime I needed a drink for my sore
throat, by Sunday 03:00 I was pretty hoarse again and when 20 started slowing
down I rented a movie since 40 and 80 were so rotten the first evening.

After finishing the movie I thought I would try working a few mults on 40 and
worked all 37 of my 40M contacts before my voice gave out again.  I shouldn't
have given up on the new dipole after the night before but I thought I had made
a lousy antenna not realizing the propagation was terrible on 40.

Sunday started out great, died down to nothing when the flare hit, then
gradually came back up.  I usually hear lots of Asiatic Russian stations and was
lucky to get any in the log this year.  I didn't think I would get any 10M
pacific/asia/Antartica in the log this year either until an opening at 2300
Sunday afternoon when I worked CE0A, CE9, KH6, 5W, 9M6, VR, and ZK1/s in a 30
minute span.  

I had hoped to work at least 1000 q's and score at least 1 million points but
791 q's  with all s&p, a sore throat, and a solar flare makes for a better
story!

See you again next year!

George / KF9YR


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