[3830] CQWW CW AL9A SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: AL9A
Operator(s): AL9A
Station: AL9A

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Wasilla, AK
Operating Time (hrs): 8.8 hr

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    0     0        0
   80:    4     3        3
   40:   53    19       23
   20:  153    21       46
   15:   20    12       14
   10:    0     0        0
------------------------------
Total:  230    55       86  Total Score = 86,151

Club: 

Comments:

Bummer weekend!  Started working Pacific on 20M Friday afternoon only to have
serious RFI problems in the house.  Disconnected several smoke detectors before
unplugging power to the whole system.  RFI still there!!!?  Finally found the
source - a plug-in carbon monoxide detector sounding a flase alarm when I
transmitted. Disconnected that and worked S&P on 20M before it died.  Went to
40M - very weak, couldn't hear most EU.  80M worse!

Saturday had tickets to take the grandkids to Anchorage for the Nutcracker
Suite.  Dinner out after and then slip and slide home in a driving snow storm. 
Found 5" of snow in the access road and driveway.  Spent an hour and a half
plowing snow before turning the radio on again.  40M very weak, 80M virtually
nothing. I'm brain dead and numb.  Off to bed.

Up at 5:30 am to scrape ice off the truck and head to the church parking lot
for another 2.5 hrs of snowplowing fun.  The other two non-ham guys with snow
plows are out of town for Thanksgiving so it's a solo effort.  Back home have
late breakfast, an hour of honey do's, and finally get the radio back on! 
Still punchy after little sleep and lots of plowing, but get in about another 4
hrs of S&P.  With 30 mins. to go I finally start to hear EU on 40M and manage a
few qso's.

Tell me again why we think this if fun?


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