[3830] RAC Winter VE9AA SOSB/20 HP

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                    RAC Winter Contest

Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA

Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: nb
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  CW Mults  Ph Mults
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  160:                              
   80:                              
   40:                              
   20:  478    411      10        11
   15:                              
   10:                              
    6:                              
    2:                              
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Total:  478    411      10        11  Total Score = 74,844

Club: Maritime Contest Club

Comments:

I apologize up front for anyone I left hanging. I have a new very bad noise in
the neighbourhood that is a sizzling/crackling s2-s9
 which is on about 2/3 of the time. (furnace?)  No amount of NB or filtration
does any good.  
When it's full bore I can barely hear the really loud guys.
  When it's off, I can usually even pull out the QRP guys.

As usual, this is a lazy to medium paced fun contest, but there were lots of
folks to work during the middle of the day.

Doing single band meant it got a lot slower later on.  Still had fun.  The 2
funniest QSO's were VE3EJ who was a bazillion over s9 on SSB.
I replied something like "Geez John, I can barely hear you" and he replied
along the same lines.  It got me laughing I barely was
able to complete the next 2 or 3 Q's.  Then later my old friend VY0HL called in
with a silly fake accent of some kind and got me laughing
all over again.  We then proceeded to chat for 5 to 10 minutes.  This is one
contest I don't take too seriously so when on phone I generally
like to say hi and thank folks for all the Q's in the previous year and wish
them HNY !

Radio: Very old IC-746 250/500Hz CW filters
SSB: VK-64 Voice keyer, Heil headset.
CW: WinKeyer USB
Software: N1MM
Antenna: Measely wire ground plane hanging off a tree limb, base @ 14'. (just 2
radials @ 45º)
Power: 750w CW, 1kW SSB
QTH: 660'ASL

Happy New Year All !

-Mike VE9AA


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