[SCCC] WA6L ARRL 10M

[John Graf]

Call: WA6L
Operator(s): WA6L
Station: WA6L

Class: SO CW QRP
QTH: Alpine, CA
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
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CW:  12     3
SSB:
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Total:  12     3  Total Score = 144

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

Taking a line from Lloyd Bridge's character in the move Airplane, "I  
picked a
bad week to give up using power."

My strategy was that if 10M is open, you only need 5 watts to work the  
world.
However, the opposite is also true.  When 10M is NOT open, 5 watts can  
barely
work San Diego.  My K2 was all ears and no mouth.   I could contact  
perhaps one
out of every four stations that I heard, and I didn't' hear all that  
many.

But at least it wasn't raining.    Wait -- it was raining, and that did
something to my antenna or my coax.  SWR was all over the place.  I  
finally
went up to the roof of the house and strung a dipole, so I had better  
signal,
but no better results on Sunday.

Tim (K6GEP) -- thanks for the laugh and the poem!  It was the best  
part of the
contest so far.  And it really summed up my effort -- "Stink. Stank.  
Stunk."

The new beam will be up over the Christmas break (this I swear in  
blood!) and I
will be back for the RTTY contest in January.

73,

John, WA6L