[3830] WPX SSB LU1UM M/S LP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: LU1UM
Operator(s): LU2UF, LU2USW, LU4UBL, LU4ULT, LU5UAE, LU5UAS,LU5UBI, LU5UEV, LU5USR, LU6UOL, LU7UPD
Station: LU1UM

Class: M/S LP
QTH: SANTA ROSA
Operating Time (hrs): 44

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:    7
   40:   35
   20:  441
   15:  287
   10: 1020
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Total: 1790  Prefixes = 745  Total Score = 3,832,280

Club: LU Contest Group

Comments:

Another WPX SSB for LU1UM, but this year different than the year above. Last
year was only able to excite a 2 casual operators, not contesters, and an
influenza make me made only 2 hours in the air and failing to make a
multisingle. Also did not have the infrastructure than this year.
Then came the amateur course 2011, the new guys and girls with ages between 13
to 17 years, and we renewal the enthusiasm of those who were already working in
the Radio Club Santa Rosa. And my soul was able to enthuse contester new and
those already.

I already said in previous contests involving, of all the "Young Boys" (THANK
YOU Clo LU7DW and Raul, EA2SS that watered the seeds). I can see the operative
growth of the guys, I've had less intervention and more time to enjoy and see
them resolve situations that previously required help from someone more
experienced, now meet them and between them (if more than one listening, and
one of those, at the mic and other ine at the keyboard, sure that one in the DX
Summit and / or QRZ.com, accompanied jointly, getting experience.) You can hear
their whisper, going back and forth between laughter, out of the shack, with
cards, guitars, books, homework, knitting, computer games, internet, facebook,
friends visiting ... I never imagined anything like this in a contest!

Another important aspect that causes this movement in weekend contests, is the
involvement of partners who come to do maintenance and logistics so that we can
be outside the best way possible, and in the most comfortable, improving
infrastructure is due in part to all operators or not, committed to the
realization of these events (2 items come to 40, hot water supply and air
conditioning for the summer contest.)

In this debut WPX SSB 4 new operators, Soledad 13 years, his father Charles,
LU6UOL (the president of the RC), Gabi LU5USR, and Rodolfo LU4UBL received last
year, who were encouraged to taste some contesting QSO's, and then back to
listen and learn.

The competition started very well in the early hours with a very good rate,
especially for low power, but quickly we began to get used to what would be a
weekend full of "obstacles" that prevented having a consistent performance.
A strong thunderstorm struck the city during the early hours of Saturday. When
we resumed the activity after 2 hours, start with a "small" little problem with
the Yaesu FT 920 that, among intermittently QRT stay in TX. So to continue with
the good of Kenwood TS450V.
Then take it to the club my Icom 751 with its source PS15 which is also "dead"
on Saturday night when it blown away the diode bridge. We take the wrong time
to make a good one, and went to eat the excellent roast made by Oscar LU5UOA
all together (no ill wind that blows no good.) Kenwood finally finished using
the broker with 60w (Japanese version with reduced power) and looking to the
3rd team of RC, a Yaesu FT 840.
In all this we add a network failure which prevented us from logging QSO's from
the other PC, so the boys wrestled to operate in that situation until the end of
the contest and they did good shape.
The most important were the lot of funny situations that we spend and stay in
the anecdotes of what was an excellent weekend, with a shack full of happy
children. 
Thanks to: Paul LU2UPD, Oscar LU5UOA, who gave crucial logistical support.

Thanks to all of you who contacted us and gave encouragement, congratulations,
and the occasional joke.

Greetings from all LU1UM
Alex
LU2UF

P.S. Obviously, points to our dearest LU Contest Group
I will upload photos in the facebook page of RADIO CLUB SANTA ROSA.


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