[3830] WPX SSB KU6W(@K9YC) M/S HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: KU6W
Operator(s): K6RM, N6NUL, K9YC
Station: K9YC

Class: M/S HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 42

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:  315
   40:  318
   20:  366
   15:  358
   10:   99
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Total: 1456  Prefixes = 633  Total Score = 2,238,288

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

This was a fun effort. As near as we can tell, no one got hurt. My own operating
time was limited due to my recovering from minor foot surgery, so Barry and
Byron stepped up to do most of the operating. 15 and 20 were in pretty good
shape to EU. It was tribute to the resilience of our friends in Japan that in
their time of great trouble, so many still managed to get on the air for this
event. Our thoughts are with them.  

Really awful audio (and splatter) continues to make SSB contests a painful
event. At least a third of the most active stations were badly distorted,
making it much more difficult to copy their call and/or their exchange. What
these LIDS fail to understand is that the louder they turn up their mic (and
the voice playback), the WORSE it sounds, and the HARDER it is to COPY them.
Once you hit full modulation and 10dB or so of compression, anything more makes
it WORSE, not better. At least 20 stations lost Qs from me because I couldn't
copy their call, even though they were booming in. 

All of this is made worse, of course, by operators who try to talk too fast,
and don't articulate their call clearly. The worst of these operators seem to
be the ones who are the most macho. 

I'd love to ban the use of QRZ? in contests -- if you say "thanks, K9YC"
instead of "thanks, QRZ" at the end of the QSO, you're advertising -- it's like
a free CQ that builds rate. And one of these days in a contest I don't care
about, I'm going to  respond "no, I won't copy" to every LID who says "please
copy" and delete their Q from my log.  

73, Jim K9YC


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