[SCCC] Fw: CQWW CW 9Y4AA(N6TJ) SOSB/40 HP

[Jim Neiger]

Subject: CQWW CW 9Y4AA(N6TJ) SOSB/40 HP


>                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: 9Y4AA
> Operator(s): N6TJ
> Station: 9Y4AA
>
> Class: SOSB/40 HP
> QTH: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
> Operating Time (hrs): 36.5
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40: 3767    35      134
>   20:
>   15:
>   10:
> ------------------------------
> Total: 3767    35      134  Total Score = 1,806,779
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> Great to return to Trinidad and Tobago for my 3rd straight year.  And many
> thanks to my kind host, Andy 9Y4W and to our friend Chris 9Y4D for his 
> timely
> assistance, too.  Wonderful of Chris to fly over to Tobago the day before 
> the
> contest for a hand-shake and a couple of CARIB 807's.
>
> Goals this year were modest.  See if I could hold together for another CQ 
> WW
> CW, and take a shot at the 40 meter South America record set by my friend 
> OH0XX
> from YV5A a dozen years ago.  Both seem to have been accomplished. 
> Definitely
> heartening to know that some goals can still be reached by very senior
> citizens.
>
> In my 50+ running of CQ WW, I dedicated this operation to our good friend 
> Phil
> Goetz N6ZZ, and also to the memories of two other contesting friends 
> recently
> lost to us:  Jim Maxwell W6CF (my QSL Manager for all of my pre-1992 
> operations
> from ZD8Z, 9Y4AA, VR1W/KB6DA, etc) and Hillar Raamat N6HR (ex-ZD8HR, etc) 
> who
> played such an important role in getting me on the road for so many CQ 
> WW's,
> starting in 1967.
>
> Thanks to the many who called, especially finding me often running so high 
> up
> the 40M band.  Very pleasant surprise to be called by D2NX for my only 
> Zone 36,
> and thanks to TF4M for giving me Zone 40 with 23 minutes to go. 
> Conditions were
> great, and cannot ever remember 40 sounding like 10.
>
> Rig:  FT1000MP MK V     ALPHA 87A
>
> Antenna:  2 element rotary.
>
> Software:  TRLOG
>
> Congratulations to the excellent A/B scores from John P40W, Andy V47NT, 
> Tom
> 8P5A and so many other outstanding operators.  Sorry I was not able to QSY 
> to
> the other bands for the mult; all can take solace in knowing I QSYed for 
> no
> one, deciding to treat everyone fairly and equally badly.  I must say I 
> was
> surprised that most of the big gun multi's didn't ask me to move.
>
> And many thanks to wife Marilyn and daughter Kristen that helped lug all 
> the
> radio stuff to the Caribbean and back.
>
> Expecting to return to T&T for 2008.  See you all then.
>
> 73
>
> Jim Neiger  N6TJ, 9Y4AA
>
>
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>