[Mldxcc] (Fwd) cqp '05

[gdaught6@stanford.edu]

Hi,

Excuse me for forgetting to post this to MLDXCC!

73,


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From:           	Self <gdaught6 at stanford.edu>
To:             	nccc at contesting.com
Subject:        	cqp '05
Date sent:      	Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:02:10 -0700

Well, that was just marginally less painful than my kidney stone last
year.  But there were some good and/or amusing things that I
experienced.

1.  My computer decided it would send my CQ message to my screen,
rather than to the DVP board.  A jillion gibberish characters.  But 
CT
was still running, so I hit Alt-X and a little window opened up 
asking
"Are you sure you want to quit?"  I answered "Y" and then restarted. 
Everything was fine again.

2.  After I worked an NCCC member on 15m SSB he asked "do you want to
try CW?"  I said "sure" and he told me a frequency.  I went directly
there, and it was N6O's run frequency.  We didn't connect.

3.  Another NCCC member moved me around a couple of times, and on 10m
SSB said "We haven't done it on 20 sideband yet.  Do you want to 
try?"
 I said "sure" and he told me "14.020".  That SSB QSO didn't happen
either.  I had gone to 14.020 before I noticed that this was a bad
idea.  I'm pretty slow.  The other fellow can claim sleep 
deprivation,
because he got a very good score.

4.  It was easy to find and hold a clear frequency on 10m and 15m 8>)
   QSO's were hard to come by, though.

5.  I never heard ID or ND.  I managed to get UT from a mobile 
station passing through.  He called me from CO later.  I got a 
surprisingly large number of HI, VT, ME, SC, SD, DE and other 
typically "hard" ones.

The tally is:

      Call:      K6GT
      Category:  Single Operator
      Power:     High Power
      Band:      All Band
      Mode:      Mixed Mode 

      MODE      QSO    QSO PTS  MULTS

       CW      337     1011       10
      SSB      549     1098       46
      -----------------------------------------

      Totals   886     2109       56  =   118,104

Club Affiliation: Mother Lode DX & Contest Club

This is to certify that in this contest I have operated
my transmitter within the limitations of my license and have
observed most of the rules and regulations of the contest, and mostly
on 20 meters.

73,


------- End of forwarded message -------George T. Daughters, K6GT