[SCCC] CQWW DX SSB CONTEST - VK3TDC

[Dennis Vernacchia]

During CQWW SSB this weekend. operating from portable Fallbrook site and
using call NX6T
( San Diego Contest Club )
I was keeping an ear out for SDDXC member Steve NF6V, now VK3TDX who married
an
Aussie gal and moved to to "The Land Down Under" and set up a nice
competitive station.

I finally found Steve late Saturday night and here's what happened !

Steve finally turns up on 40 mtrs but he is in the Foreign Sub Band and not
listening up for USA !

Frustrated that I could not call him I whipped out my Stinkin I-Phone and
videoed the event !

See YouTube Video here:

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFp9klKdTAU*

Below was Steve's lame excuse ( J/K ) !

Enjoy !

73, Dennis N6KI

Steve,

I just knew there had to be some "reasonable" explanation for this event !
Looks like you did a great job and sorry I missed working you but maybe one
of my other Ops in our
MS effort managed to find you !

I'd sure like to take you up on your offer to come down sometime and do a
contest from Down Under !

73, Dennis N6KI





On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 4:22 PM, <VK3TDX at aol.com> wrote:

>  Dennis - -
> Thanks for this!  I had such a mix of euphoria and frustration this
> weekend I can really identify with your groans.  I had just finished a long,
> frustrating attempt at calling in the mess above 7125 and had to settle for
> agonizing S&P with a slow rate so I went down into the peace and quiet of
> the sub-USA part of the band.  What you didn't hear after you tuned away
> from me was that NP2B called me and said he felt sorry for me not getting
> any action so he'd spot me on the cluster.  He did and in about 2 minutes I
> was buried in juicy DX from SA, Carribean, other pacific etc.  Sorry you
> didn't get to hear the fun part.
>
> The best fun for me was both mornings (VK time) when 20 meter long path
> opens up for an hour plus.  Signals are huge for me and I had a great time
> hosting pileups for many hundred Q's into mostly the east coast.  Many of
> the guys were blown away to hear a VK from the east.  The best part for me
> was while expecting only NA stations I'd get a surprise call from Oman,
> Kenya, Madagascar, Saudi Arabia etc - totally unexpected calls.  I've found
> that many of the juiciest DX stations hate to sit in  pileups all day so
> they S&P for guys like me who have a zone they may need.  Sure is fun to
> have one of these guys pop up.
>
> I get your message on what I should have done.  Maybe you guys can have a
> laugh about me at the next DX club meeting  I was pretty tired at the time
> you heard me so I was probably not thinking strategically.  Hi  BTW I worked
> W6YI, K6NA and (amazingly) N7CW.  I didn't know Bud owned a mike!   I gave
> him a hard time about abandoning CW for the weekend and I also gave Glenn a
> bit of gas about the same.
>
> Thanks again for the video.  I'll save it for posterity.
> You've gotta come here some day.  It's really a ball to be a DX station
> with a decent station but it's still hard at times getting through.
>
> My score and comments below as posted on the 3830 reflector.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
>                      CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
>
> Call: VK3TDX
> Operator(s): VK3TDX
> Station: VK3TDX
>
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: Rural Melbourne
> Operating Time (hrs): 32
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>   160:    0     0        0
>    80:    3     2        2
>    40:  360    23       59
>    20:  318    27       63
>    15: 1041    24       80
>    10:   46     5        6
> ------------------------------
> Total: 1768    81      210  Total Score = 1,480,317
>
> Club: VK Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> A wonderful weekend full of surprises, successes and frustrations.
> 10 meters was barely open to the north for short bursts but 15 meters was
> the
> money band here with long solid openings to EU. 40 meters was good shape
> with
> low noise and no Chinese radar.  80 was almost impossible here because of
> our
> narrow DX window allowed in the VK bandplan.  20 meters was the most fun
> for me
> with beautiful long path openings both days - lots of surprises coming
> through
> from Africa, SA and EU while expecting only to hear NA stations.
>
> Thanks to all who waited in pileups to work me, thank you to those who
> swung
> antennas my way and thanks to the many cluster spots and "frequency police"
> who
> tried to help me.
>
> Thanks to N6KI for reminding me on YouTube to work split next time on 40
> meters.
>
> 73 to all
> Steve VK3TDX
>
>  In a message dated 11/1/2010 8:48:06 A.M. AUS Eastern Daylight Time,
> n6ki73 at gmail.com writes:
>
> This is payback for not listening UP !!!
>
> N6KI
>
>
> Check out this video on YouTube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFp9klKdTAU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>
>
> Sent from my stinking I Phone
>
>