[CQ-Contest] f/B Antenna ratios - reception

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Ahhh, indeed.

Memories:  Sometime circa 1979-1980 time frame, a couple of us at the Penn State ARC K3CR realized that with not much effort, we stood a good chance of winning Multi-Op WPA for the ARRL 160 contest... in part because there had been no MO entries in WPA in that contest for years.  So, we started recruiting a few people to stay up and operate.

One person we talked to was a graduate student at the time, Tom W3/LA4LN.  Tom politely declined our invitation since he was planning to operate the contest himself.   Our mistake, of course, in trying to convince him to join us was in revealing WHY we were so interested in the contest that year, though he did say he might stop by and help operate if he could.

You probably know where this is going... yes, Tom waxed us but good.  And technically, he was also MO that year.  He told us afterwards that he had his wife, W3/LA2SR, make a single contact!    

Moral:  Don't ever expect to win by coasting.  Even when it's a sure thing, it's not!

73, ron w3wn

--------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:28:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Pederson <spederson at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] f/B Antenna ratios - reception
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>

Ahhh,

Winter 1986 - ARRL 10m Contest - myself and Ken, KA9RVK at the top of Tillman hall (ham shack was in the boiler room), Kenwood TS-520S with 80m dipole and MFJ tuner.

We called CQ for a few hours with the straight key - this was the BOTTOM of the last sunspot cycle - and worked one station - a local ham operating 10m CW mobile on the other side of town 4 miles away.

Total = 1 QSO.

73!
Scott - KI5DR


Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com> wrote: > BTW I remember the 1969 Sweepstakes.  I was SOOO excited about having 126 
> QSO's.  :-)
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ

In 1932, W7AAT made 9 QSOs over two weeks and won the Montana section.  No 
word on how many other Montana section competitors turned in their logs...

73, Ward N0AX