[3830] LP Sprint K6VVA LP

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                    Low Power CW Sprint

Call: K6VVA
Operator(s): K6VVA
Station: K6VVA

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 50mins

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:  15    20mins
   40:  19    15mins
   20:  21    15mins
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Total:  55     Mults = 22  Total Score = 1,210

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

APRIL FOOL...no big score here in reality.

I didn't expect to be QRV at all, as I was supposed to be out of town at a 60th
birthday party bash for someone, and then brunch tomorrow at Yosemite. 
Unfortunately, *Reality* got in the way...major real estate transaction bizz
that kept me occupied much of the day today.

But I also had Grunt work to do here later.  As I was moving more antennas to
the driveway so the weed spraying company can do there thing, at about 20
minutes before the start of the contest I decided oh-what-the-heck...I'll go
play for a few minutes and had out some Q's.

Although there seemed to be an absence of signals, the first 5 minutes yielded
10 Q's and at QSO #21 only one other station was ahead of me in numbers (K4BAI
:-)  I decided to quit while I was sort-of ahead.  Back to moving yagis.

I then remembered today was April Fool's Day, so decided to come back later on a
break and hand out a few more Q's with April Fool's numbers, and figured my
fellow NCCCers would wonder who's station I was a Guest Op at.  Or, get them
motivated to keep from snoozing.  So I showed up again later on 40m for a bit,
and then back outside to finish the move stuff.  The RTTY QRM was 20Khz wide & I
said enough is enough.

Kinda bizarre to only have an A3 up on a 30ft slip up mast, but 3 54ft towers on
the ground, two MA-40's, an AB-577, C31-XRN, C4-SXL, (2) 204BA's, another A3 and
a TET yagi on the ground not up in the air.  I may be having an antenna/tower
*driveway* sale soon!

Finished the antenna moves, ate dinner, went for a mini-power walk, grabbed
another glass of wine, but before QRVing on 80 near the end, I realized I had
bumped up the numbers too far for possible believability.  Deleted some SP0OF
(SP Zero OF) Q's with the name *Fooler*, and then fired up the rig again.

Darn...I axed out a few too many Q's 'cuz N3BB had #171 to my #164 April Fool
Number.  What a coincidence that the only 2 guys with higher numbers were our
two NCCC NS East of & West of Mississippi winners...John/K4BAI & Jim/N3BB. 
That's REAL SP0OKY!!!

I felt bad for all the serious effort guys having such an absence of stations in
the contest, but glad I could *unexpectedly* hand out a few Q's. 

Happy April Fool's Day :-)

73...

Rick, K6VVA


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