[RTTY] K4GMH TARA Melee

[Mike]

Single Op, Low Power.
Number of QSOs: 529
Multipliers:               98
Score                51842

Yes, low power.  Amp broke in the ARRL SS SSB Contest.   Rebuilding it.

Also, no 80 meter ant.  The high winds on Thurs. discovered the weak 
point of the inverted vee - a solder joint on one leg that had been 
extended for better low end SWR.  Friday morning found only a foot 
remaining connected to the balun on the tower.  The rest was laying 
next to the tree holding up the other end.

Figured this would be a good time to give SO2R a full try.  It was 
hard at first.  Once got a rhythm or figured out what I was suppose 
to do, it was fun.  Felt reasonably comfortable with SO2R by the end 
of the Contest.  Still a lot to learn about SO2R operation.

         73,
         Mike, K4GMH