[Mldxcc] W6RKC 2010 SS Ph

[Rick]

>>             SSSSB Score Summary Sheet
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>>        Start Date : 2010-11-18
>>
>>     CallSign Used : W6RKC
>>       Operator(s) : W6RKC
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>>Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
>>              Band : ALL
>>             Power : HIGH
>>              Mode : SSB
>>       Gridsquare : CM98QI
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>>              Name : Rick Casey
>>           Address : 10640 Tabeaud Rd.
>>    City/State/Zip : Pine Grove  CA  95665-9701
>>           Country : USA
>>
>>      ARRL Section : SV
>>         Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
>>          Software : N1MM Logger V10.10.2
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>>         Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
>>          3.5      52     104   17
>>            7      51     102   15
>>           14      61     122    8
>>           21      92     184   29
>>        Total     256     512   69
>>
>>
>>             Score : 35,328



I think this may be only the second time in 10 years that I have 
submitted over 100,000 combined CW/Ph points for the NCCC SS effort. 
I know, not a big deal when so many KBers can do that in a 12 hour or 
less effort. However, for me, in my house, it IS a big deal.

I started Saturday morning full of high expectations after the fun of 
SS CW. Alas, it was not to be. Apparently, a butterfly farted in the 
Amazon basin, causing additional chaos is the jet stream, which made 
the wind blow erratically in Pine Grove, which caused yet another 
power failure from the good folks at Mogadishu Power & Light. The 
lights went out at ~1730 UTC and came back on at 0110 UTC and I was 
on the air at 0115, working WC6H for my first QSO. Rich only had 510 
at that time so I knew I could still catch him. BUTT....at 0134 the 
Mogadishu gang struck again and the lights were off until 0700. By 
this time the snow was coming in horizontally and from 0700 to 0900 I 
made an astounding 30 contacts, all louder than the 10db over S9 snow 
static, and falling just a bit further behind Rich. Went to bed and 
awoke the next morning to the familiar flashing digital clocks, so I 
apparently didn't miss much overnight.

Also, since my ISP is via a 900 Mhz RF link over a 3 mile path to 
Butte Mountain, it naturally failed from the storm and didn't return 
until Monday morning. So, except for 35 QSO's, my U precedance was in 
vain.  My buddies back in New England joke about me living in the 
third world here in rural Pine Grove. I am beginning to think they 
are right, except here, real winter lasts only 2 weeks and summer is 
three times longer than there with none of the humidity.

I was able to get about 5 more hours in and finally made it back to 
triple digit QSO #'s, enough to qualify for the coveted NCCC extra 
100 QSO Award Shirt and just failing to squeak by WC6H in a near photo finish.

Man, I hate SSB contests!

73 & KB,

Rick, W6RKC