[Mldxcc] SS Wallpaper, Section Record. Note to SSB Ops.

[Alan Maenchen]

Not SS, but going through the pile of bills and other junk mail when I got
home the other day I found a small package with a 3 inch diameter brass
medal .. suitable for wearing or ???.
WRTC 2014
On the back is says "continental leader - most band modes"

Hmmm .. I worked as many WRTC stations as I could find with my 40 meter
inverted vee. Only worked about 20 of them scattered on 15 and 20.. All on
CW I think. I guess most of them were beaming EU. I never worked the
winners: K1A, and I saw a quote from them that they never turned the beam
away from EU unless the rate dropped to zero. That's probably why I never
heard them.

All I was really trying to do is work whatever station Ed was judging to
get a bottle of his fine Rose. Sorry I missed the opportunity to pick up
the bottle but couldn't get to the Dixon meeting, and I flew out of the
area the next day.

I'll be active in SS both modes, so no one should miss the PAC section this
year.

73, Alan  AD6E  /  KH6RR





On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:39 PM, K6OK <jvarn359 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Received from ARRL: Certificate, 1st Place CW, Single Operator Unlimited
> Low Power, Sacramento Valley Section, 2013.  With this effort I hold the
> Unlimited Low CW record for SV section.  I admit this makes me smirk a
> little bit because I did it with a decoder :-)
>
> The wallpaper and section record is very much a small fish in a small pond
> sort of achievement. But it demonstrates that with some pre-contest
> preparation and committing to hours in the chair *any* small pistol
> SSB-only operator can score lots of points in a CW contest.  If I can do it
> you can too.  Some months back I gave a talk about how i did this; if you'd
> like a copy of my presentation send me an e-mail offline and I'd be happy
> to send it to you.
>
> 73 Jim K6OK
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