[CCF] SAC SSB OH6GE M/M HP

[Kim Östman]

Kevyttä kusottelua Pohjanmaalta!

73
Kim OH6KZP

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                    Scandinavian Activity Contest, SSB

Call: OH6GE
Operator(s): OH6GE OH6KZP
Station: OH6GE

Class: M/M HP
QTH: Jakobstad
Operating Time (hrs): 5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:   40    17
   40:   93    28
   20:   71    19
   15:   37    20
   10:    1     1
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Total:  242    85  Total Score = 44,030

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

My mother turned 70 this week, so the family was gathered together to
celebrate over the weekend. SAC is not to be missed, however; perhaps you
can be excused on the year of your own funeral, but the year after that
you'd better be on the air again..! So we decided to do a non-serious little
M/S with my father OH6GE, running some QSOs here and there. I also tried to
offer the microphone to some of my nephews, but although they listened to
some of the action they weren't yet quite up to doing any QSOs. 

In a bit of nostalgia, I realized that it has now been almost 20 years since
I got my novice license after having been coached by my father. Likewise, it
has now been almost 20 years since we entered WPX CW together as M/S in one
of my very first contests. At the time, I worked with 30W on the bands I was
allowed on, with him taking care of the other bands. 

As another nostalgic detail, we now worked part of the time with the same
TS-520 tube rig and long wire as we did in 1994, with the TCVR requiring
manual re-tuning after every band change. The other part was worked with a
TS-140S and our old trusty AL-80A amp, driving a tribander, a 40m 2-el
shorty, and an 80m dipole that were put up as the contest excitement grew
with the years.

Band conditions in this contest appeared to be excellent, and it seemed that
activity was decent, too. We are submitting as M/M because of disregarding
the 10-minute rule with some multi-band QSYs: since we were just
semi-serious, the main thing was to be on the air giving some points to
non-Scandinavians, and collecting points for Team Finland in the
Scandinavian Cup. It was also fun to do some S&P to answer the often lonely
CQ calls of the more serious non-Scandinavians; kudos to you for hanging in
there. Congratulations to all the top scorers!

Kim OH6KZP