[SCCC] TBDC W6VIO(W4EF) Single Op HP

[Michael Tope]

Stew Perry Topband Challenge

Call: W6VIO
Operator(s): W4EF
Station: W6VIO

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: DM04
Operating Time (hrs): 4

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 124  Total Score = 672

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

I had intended to operate the whole contest period, but
my wife's dog died on Saturday morning so I rushed
home from the TRW swapmeet to console her (the news
got me pretty down in the dumps too). After my wife went
to sleep Saturday night, I made a few QSOs from my
home station. Turned out that I had to use paper and
pencil for logging since the new Belkin keyboard I bought
recently to replace my old failing Compaq keyboard is a
really good antenna (the $8 keyboard I bought at Fry's on
Monday has since fixed that problem). Anyway conditions
sounded good with strong signals from the East Coast, so
I decided it was worth the drive over to W6VIO down the
road in La Canada where my antenna situation would be
a bit better. Got there about 2 AM local time and worked
the contest until about 6 AM local when I just ran out of gas
and decided to head home. I got home with about 10
minutes to go, so I worked a few more stations with W4EF
right at the end. My best DX from W6VIO was Greg ZL3IX
in RE66 (23 points) who answered my CQ. FM5GU had a
standout DX signal here (I even worked him from home with
my kludge antenna).

73 de Mike, W4EF..........