[NCC] K3LR from KS

[Tim Duffy K3LR]

                    NA Sprint CW Contest

Call: K3LR
Operator(s): K3LR
Station: K3LR

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Kansas
Operating Time (hrs): 4

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:   71        
   40:   97        
   20:   96        
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Total:  264    Mults = 41  Total Score = 10,824

Club: 

Team: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

What a week of changes! I had plane tickets and a QTH all set for a W4AN
memorial operation from VP2VAN. Work got in the way and had to cancel
the trip
to VP2V.
My 2nd radio home at W5TM is in need of repair and Ed is moving to his
new super
QTH. So at 2 PM (CDT) Saturday afternoon I figured that only being 100
miles
away from the rare KS multiplier and knowing W4AN's "whatever it takes"
attitude, I bought 150 ft of #14 wire, grabbed the laptop, the IC706 and
headed
north having no idea where I would operate from (I've never been to
Kansas
before). Arrived in Arkansas City, Kansas 45 minutes before the start.
Newman
Park had AC power, a picnic table and two trees that were 20 feet tall
spaced
150 feet. By the start all was ready except the computer would not send
CW. No
problem, we'll send it all by hand while killing mosquitos (KS) with the
other.

This contest is amazing and I'm glad I made the effort. Conditions were
just
great!

Even the local police were humored when the visited me at the end of the
contest. "So, can you tell me why you are sitting in the dark with a
radio and a
laptop"? And "Please tell me what that wire is doing in the tree". 

Talked to the "other" Tim (KL7WV) on the phone after the contest. No
Kansas mult
for WV and no AK mult in the log for K3LR.

I miss you Bill Fisher.

KS to all,
Tim K3LR