[NCC] NA Sprint SSB K0DXC LP

Sat Sep 19 21:26:11 PDT 2009

NA Sprint SSB Contest - September

Call: K0DXC
Operator(s): K0DXC
Station: K0DXC

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Lid Land
Operating Time (hrs): 0.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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  80:  15        
  40:  10        
  20:  2        
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Total:  27    Mults = 18  Total Score = 486

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Team: SMC #1

Comments:

RIG: PRO3
Antenna: 6BTV, Dipole
Software: Win-Test

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75 METER LSB IS THE FUNNIEST, BEST STUFF I'VE EVER HEARD! (The best
stuff on
the radio.) TRUE COMEDIANS, I TELL YOU!

Before I talk about 75 meters, I'll give you my summary of the actual
contest...

Blah...

20 meters = terrible. Only 2 QSOs with my vertical / dipole setup. Not
many
stations to work and the ones that I could hear had a hard time hearing
me.

40 meters = tons of carriers, broadcast stations, and crap. Very
annoying. The
PRO3's band scope was just about useless because of all the random stuff
on the
air. There didn't seem to be many stations on 40 either. 

75 meters = LOUD signals, but too many rag chewers! I couldn't find many
guys
who were actually IN the contest! Everyone was either on 3850 or
3855....
SPREAD OUT, IT WILL BENEFIT US ALL!

OKOKOKOKOKOK, now I shall speak of my glorious findings on 75!

So I'm tuning around on 75 meters, and I'm not going to say where I was
to keep
the roundtable / net secret but I stumbled across a group of about 6
hams
talking back and forth while I was trying to find a new frequency to
call CQ
on. 

Let's be honest, for me, the SSB sprint is not a great contest. I like
phone,
but I don't get out very well with my antennas. Because the contest
wasn't going
to well, I decided to listen in to these guys talking.

It proved to be a very GOOD time investment!

Right off the bat they were talking about how to handle being QRM'd
(they
referred to it as "quermed") by other stations. We were in the middle of
a
SPRINT so guys - !dem idiot contesters! were jumping around all over the
place!

The conversation went well and they all agreed that the best way to deal
with
QRM is to simply ignore it. I second this. However, my method is a
little
different because when someone calls me out on the air (surprisingly, it
happens a lot to me on 20 SSB) about being stupid or about being a
NEWBIE LID
or about lieing about my age (yes, some people don't believe I'm 15) or
about
not knowing anything about ham radio or about.... ANYWAYS, I will DEBATE
the
QRMer! Seriously! I will argue with the lid. Then when I win the
argument (I
always win) the lid will leave. 

Anyone who knows me personally will tell you that I could have a future
as a
lawyer. I've considered it but I ruled it out because I would kill
myself if I
had to attend 8 years of law school. One of these days I need to keep my
recording program running while I'm casually operating on 20 meters so I
can
capture one of these lid debates. It's good stuff.

Anyways, after this the group started talking about someone who had been
QRMing
them recently. Someone referred to this lid as a cuss word. This was the
start
of a new debate - are people allowed to cuss on the air???!!!

Five minutes later they decided that it was against FCC rules to cuss on
the
air, but their friend who actually did cuss was OK because he is in
Canada so
"we don't have jurisdiction over him!" By the way, they must have
forgotten
about this rule because everyone let a few words slip throughout the
course of
the conversation. Heck, I don't even think they cared. When someone
broke in
and said that he was recording the conversation they all replied, "NOW I
HAVE
TO CHANGE MY CALL AGAIN!"

LOL!

Right after this happened Karl, K9BGL (Karl, I hope you don't mind me
"publishing" your call) called CQ SPRINT near the frequency. I am sure
that
Karl was simply trying to quickly find a new frequency and he was in no
way
intending to cause QRM. The rest of the group, however, instantly
assumed he
was intentionally "querming" their conversation. They followed their
querm rule
and began calling Karl and asking him if he wanted to join in. This was
very
nice, and friendly. Karl had tuned away right when he heard the
frequency was
in use, so *I* decided I would jump in.

Yeah, I know. My 1st 75M round table! Was I nervous? Heck no!

I called; they invited me to join them. I quickly explained what Karl
*accidentally* did and they accepted this. Then they asked me what the
"SPRINT"
was. I spent the next 10 minutes explaining the sprint and answering
their
questions. Their first response was, "WOW! A contest where people jump
around
and cause QRM?! I need to start contesting!" 

I did not portray the sprint to be some sort of lid-fest, but I guess
that's
what they take it to be. Oh well. I tried!

They asked me a few more questions about contesting and then I told them
I
needed to sign off. Everyone was friendly toward me and I like those
guys. 

After this the conversation went into many different directions. I'm not
going
to tell you everything because it would be a waste of my time to type it
out
and I would never put explicit stuff on 3830.

What made things even more interesting was that every 5 minutes you
could hear
somebody sending "DE W5ASS" in CW at about 15 - 20 WPM.

Honestly, I'm almost tempted to regularly tune into these guys. I just
don't have the time.

Don't mistake me; I'm not ranting on 75M groups. They are quite
entertaining! I have nothing against any one of them. 

On another note, thanks to everyone for the QSO(s)! Hope to see you in
SS CW! 

If any of you are looking for MORE sprint action on a weekly basis see
http://www.ncccsprint.com/ - they even have a NEWCOMER division when the
ladder
competition starts! 

Thanks for taking the time to read all of this! Comments are always
welcome.

Very 73,

Cal, K0DXC

http://k0dxc.com
k0dxc at k0dxc.com

NOTE: Everything you read here is 100% true. Maybe I missed a word in a
quote,
but all of this is too stupid to make up. I wasted 45 minutes of my life
typing
everything out.

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