AA7BG 10 Metres

Mon Dec 11 13:50:34 EST 1995

In a message dated 95-12-11 00:57:14 EST, 0007288678 at mcimail.com (Matthew S.
Trott) writes:

>Everytime I listened to SE during dead band times (most of time) I heard
WD0T
>and NC0P. Hard-core stns heard to west all weekend were:
>KA6BIM,KD6KKP,K7FR,N6YK/7,K6AYA and a few others. 
                ^^^^^^^^^
That was Jenny, age 10, and a member of NCCC.  After placing top 10 (5?) for
a couple of years in NR, she decided to upgrade and move on to bigger and
better things.  Her motivation for hanging in there for this contest was that
she wanted to beat her old elmer, Duane, W6REC.  Now who says we can't
attract any new blood???

Bruce, AA6KX

>From Greg Fox <n9xbm at trader.com>  Mon Dec 11 21:57:04 1995
From: Greg Fox <n9xbm at trader.com> (Greg Fox)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:57:04 -0800
Subject: N9XBM 10 meter results -SO/CW/LP
Message-ID: <30CCA930.1941 at trader.com>

Call: N9XBM (at KO9Y)
  Category: SO/CW/LP
  Section: IN

  Mode    QSO    QSO PTS    STATES    COUNTRIES

  CW      191      768        29          9                     
  SSB       0        0         0          0
  -------------------------------------------

  Totals  191      768        29          9   =  29,184

  Hours of operation: Pretty much all of them except 11:30pm
                      to 6:00am each night

  A LOT of time was spent CQ'ing endlessly.  Totaly uneventfull
  Saturday night and most of Sunday.  Good thing Greg has old
  copies of NCJ on file!  If it wasn't for the openings to CA,
  FL, and CO I would of had about 75 q's.  KY1H and K1IU were 
  the two big signals here in Indiana.

  Good thing for W9OEH's CQ along side mine or I might of gone
  crazy...

  Thanks go out to Greg/KO9Y for the use of his station.

  -I tried....real hard-

  73 de Greg N9XBM
  n9xbm at trader.com

>From Bob Patten <z002816b at bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us>  Mon Dec 11 19:11:48 1995
From: Bob Patten <z002816b at bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> (Bob Patten)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:11:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 10M from AC4NJ
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9512111424.A12526-0100000 at bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us>

On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Jeff Bolda wrote:

> the hottest hour of the contest. How fitting for a strange weekend.

Yep, my best hour - saw the NA "rate meter" hit 140 at one point.  Weird, eh?
I shut my rig down at about 22:30 also and was on the way out the front 
door with Juli to go for pizza (needed to get more practice in pizza 
buying), then decided to give one last listen.  Heard a few weak ones, 
gave my apologies to XYL and jumped back in.  Wow!!

>From Emil Pocock <POCOCK at ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU>  Mon Dec 11 19:22:17 1995
From: Emil Pocock <POCOCK at ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU> (Emil Pocock)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:22:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: W3EP 10M Test
Message-ID: <951211142217.20221fc7 at ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU>

W3EP Connecticut
Single Opr / Low Power / Mixed Mode

              QSOs  Mults  (States   DXCC)
SSB           257     40      30      10
CW            227     36      29       7
Total         484     76  108K

No Europe / No Oceania

Much patience shown by CW ops with weak signals!  No solid Es until 35 minutes
before the end of the contest.  All propagation modes save aurora evident,
but none very good.

#

>From Hsu, Aaron" <ATHSU at mca.com  Mon Dec 11 19:42:00 1995
From: Hsu, Aaron" <ATHSU at mca.com (Hsu, Aaron)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 11:42:00 PST
Subject: ARRL 10M Score (just hit "Delete" now...)
Message-ID: <30CC8A6B at msmail.mca.com>

Boy, was 10M DEAD!  I really wasn't planning on working the contest, but 
some other plans fell through and I put in about 12 Hours for the contest. 
 Could have been watching some games instead!

Anyways, here's an unverified summary.  I think it's right.  I'll post a 
correction if need be.

Event: 1995 ARRL 10M Contest
Call:  KD6DAE
QTH: Alhambra, CA

     SSB  CW
     ----------
QSO's:     44  24
Points@:  2     4
     ----------
      88  +  96 = 184 * 9 Mults = 1,656 Total

Highlights:
  Meeting a lot of local contesters.
  Making 2 DX contacts to LU land (and 4 pseudo-DX contacts to MT and NC).
  Looking forward to the next Contest (NAQP)

Lowlights:
  Actually saying "Is anybody out there" for a CQ.
  Miserable propagation conditions. (Although the K index was at 0)

I really need to get a better antenna system.  My R5 just doesn't cut it 
when prop. is this bad.  I don't feel so alone though...Another local was 
also struggling with an R7.  I asked a friend to borrow his 3-el 10M beam, 
but that fell through (that's the reason I wasn't planning to do the 
contest). Oh well.  $$$ permitting, this will change...

73,

  - Aaron Hsu, KD6DAE
    athsu at mca.com