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

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

I missed KH6 in a previous year, even using packet.

Rick N6RK

On 10/17/2014 11:15 AM, Alan Maenchen wrote:
> 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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