[NCC] SS SSB K8BL Single Op LP

[R.T.Liddy]

From: webform at b4h.net <webform at b4h.net>
Subject: SS SSB K8BL Single Op LP
To: 3830 at contesting.com, k8bl at ameritech.net
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 4:30 PM

                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: K8BL
Operator(s): K8BL
Station: K8BL

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    2
   80:  540
   40:  134
   20:  141
   15:  108
   10:    0
------------
Total:  925  Sections = 80  Total Score = 148,000

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

I was coming to think I wasn't going to get PR and ND.  PR was the most
difficult.....there were finally 3 of them on 20M late aftn on Sunday and they
all had massive pileups.  My 756P3 has a triple bandstacking VFO and I had
each PR's freq in them and kept switching and calling.  It was 15 minutes
until
I got one (KP3S)!!  I was so stressed I took half an hour off and ate leftover
pizza.
 
Ran across N0GF at the tip-top of 40M mid-Sunday evening and got him after
abt 10 calls.  Whew!!  That was #80.  With about an hour left, a ND
K0-something
called me during a run on low end of 80M he had a high number and I wondered
where he was hiding up until that point in the SS.  He didn't say.
 
Most interesting QSO.....  Finally hrd VY1EI with a decent signal mid-aftn on
20M
Sunday - but, he was going by numbers and was on 4's!!  I was counting to
see
how many he would work so I could figure out when he'd be getting to
8's so
I'd
know when to jump back to his freq.  All of a sudden, he says "Any 8's
on
frequency?"
I jerked my foot to hit the footswitch and kicked it under the desk!!!  Then,
nearly
freaking out, I stuck my leg way out and got it pressed with the toe of my
slipper
and called him.  My voice was kinda sqeaky from my laid-out position and maybe
that made my signal stand out - he came right back to me through the pileup. 
GEEZ,
who says Ham Radio contesting is boring?!!!!!


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