[3830] CQ160 CW N8UM Single Op LP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: N8UM
Operator(s): N8UM
Station: N8UM

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: TN
Operating Time (hrs): 14.3

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 717  State/Prov = 51  Countries = 26  Total Score = 139,293

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

My wife had major back surgery in October.  So after the Sept VHF Test I never
pulled the FT-1000MP Mk V power supply out of the VHF Rovermobile so I had to
operate from the drivers seat of the van (the PS is buried in the operating
console…).   I had one remaining 80 meter vertical standing from the old 80 m
4 square so I dropped it at Christmas with the help of the two adult boys home
for the holidays and refurbished it.  An old Airdux base loading coil made it
resonant on 160.

Conditions were about as good as they get here in East Tennessee.  I think I
consciously noted 4 static crashes during the weekend.  I am too old to stay up
all night and was surprised at the rate I was able to keep.  

This contest was dedicated to a lifelong friend, Earl Cunningham, K6SE.  Earl
and I started in Detroit when he was W8DGP and I was in high school.  He drove
me to the Catalpa Club meetings in Birmingham in his Red Dodge convertible
(1964?).  Later we both ended up at NASA in Clear Lake City, TX and I operated
from his house (W5RTQ?).  Still later, I could always count on him as KL7FRY to
hear my little signal on 80 and 160.  In the late 70’s I operated from his
home in the Antelope Valley near Palmdale.  I remember one Sunday morning after
the CQ WW 160 SSB he took me into the Rockwell plant and we walked thru the
Challenger airframe, still under construction.   As others have remembered over
the last year, Earl will be missed but always remembered.


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