[SECC] NAQP CW W3DCG Single Op LP

[Dan/W4NTI]

You and Cort should have gotten together....hi.

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Lee, WB6BWZ" <Matt@tenn-valley.com>
To: <secc@contesting.com>
Cc: <w3dcg@arrl.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: [SECC] NAQP CW W3DCG Single Op LP


>                     North American QSO Party, CW
>
> Call: W3DCG
> Operator(s): W3DCG
> Station: W3DCG
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: Atlanta, GA
> Operating Time (hrs): 10
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:   10     7
>    80:   57    22
>    40:   72    33
>    20:   99    33
>    15:   34    19
>    10:   10     6
> -------------------
> Total:  282   120  Total Score = 33,840
>
> Club: South East Contest Club
>
> Team: SSSC #3
>
> Comments:
>
> My first ever, full-time contest effort.
>
> Spent 3 evenings after work (8pm-dark), casting (7' medium rod + Zebco
> closed face, #15 monofilament)... a 160m G5RV into the tallest nearby
tree.
> Westerly leg repeatedly entangled in #!@%$&!*?^%!@#% [lovely, shade
> rendering] branches.  Had to finally settle on THAT leg marked for
> EAST/WEST, running North/South with a steep declination from apex.
>
> Saturday:
> By 4:00pm local, I was INTENSELY wishing that I had incorporated a
computer
> + N1MM freeware that my friend and co-worker, Brian Turner- burnt for me
> late Friday afternoon.  I justified staying with paper because it was down
> to the wire, and I have a wonderful PTO rig of a by-gone era.
>
> By 8:00pm I was ACUTELY AWARE, of how it feels to work 3X harder for 1/2
the
> pay.  The Dupe-Sheet aspect of the entire affair had become an ordeal,
> serving to further enhance the intensity of sprinting tediously across the
> bands, hoping not to clobber anyone while being clobbered.
>
> Not even the thick sheild provided by a 250 Hz InRad, would thwart the
> frenetic onslought nor spare me from the need for a couple Advil gel caps,
> which did offer a respite from the rigors of this marathon
Dance/Accounting
> excersize in futility.
>
> At any rate, it was a circumstance I earned fair and cheap.
>
> Further, and dearly appreciated relief was rendered by my wife, KG4PYN,
who
> managed me by keeping track of time, prodding and providing moral support
> when I thought I'd had enough... " You're 14 ahead of your goal at this
> rate..." and "...falling behind, you need 7 before your next break in 10
> minutes..." and, "When you come back you need a full sheet to hit your
> target, and you're doing great..." she'd say.
>
> I arbitrarily chose 300 contacts as a target.
>
> Seemed reasonable in theory- even with paper logs/dupe sheets.  I had
hoped
> that 10 and 160 would have been kinder, and was very disappointed by 10
> meters where I thought I'd find a plethora of contacts from West of the
> Mississippi and the Pacific Provinces/States.  I mean, my tiny dipole
> actually developes slight gain on 10.
>
> It was a lofty goal for a completely manually worked first time effort.
>
> Antennas:
>
> 160 & 80:
> 208' G5RV in a vaguely Inv Vee configuration, one leg E/W, the other N/S,
> apex @70'.
> 40 - 10:
> 66' OCF G5RV flat-top @ 33'.
>
> Corsair, the first edition.  Vibroplex Brass Racer.  Idiom Press K3.
>
> HA!
>
> "...sometimes our big splashes, just ripples in the pool..." - RUSH, Power
> Windows.
>
> D.Cy Gacuzana, w3dcg,
> Atlanta, GA
>
>
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>
>
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