[SECC] ZF2DQ - ARRL DX SSB

[Gary McConville]

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tea...

Gary - WB4SQ

--- Scott Redd K0DQ <k0dq at analog.org> wrote:
> Thanks to all the SECCer for the Q's. . . if you
> looked for me Sunday and
> didn't find me, here's why.
> 
> Scott Redd
> Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired)
> Chairman and President, JSR Associates, Inc.
> 
> 
> To: 3830 at contesting.com
> cc: redd at analog.org
> From: redd at analog.org
> Subject: ARRLDX SSB ZF2DQ(K0DQ) SOAB HP
> 
> 
>                     ARRL DX Contest, SSB
> 
> Call: ZF2DQ
> Operator(s): K0DQ
> Station: ZF2NT
> 
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: cAYMAN iSLANDS
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
> 
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:  204    53
>    80:  530    57
>    40:  428    55
>    20:  859    60
>    15: 1515    61
>    10: 1672    60
> -------------------
> Total: 5208   346  Total Score = 5,405,904
> 
> Club: South East Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> 24 hour effort.  Lost voice completely at midpoint.
> 
> Bruce Sawyer, ZF2NT, kindly invited me to use his
> station which is probably
> pretty close to the optimum QTH for this contest. 
> Arrived Tuesday night
> and,
> after some antenna work, was all ready to go by
> Friday.  Unbeknownst to me,
> however, I'd picked up a cold/ flu bug, probably on
> the plane down.
> 
> As the contest started there were more than a few
> cobbwebs in my mind (and
> tongue) but managed to throw off a 300+ hour.  As
> time went on Friday night,
> I
> noted that my throat was a bit tight and it took
> increasingly more effort to
> talk.  Things got progressively worse and, by
> Saturday afternoon, I sounded
> like
> a talking frog at best.  By midnight zulu, I
> literally could only whisper
> and
> chose discretion as the better part of valor,
> hanging it up at 0041 with
> 5200
> QSO's and a not too bad 346 mult (still needed some
> easy stuff on 40).
> 
> This was my first phone contest from DX in 30 years,
> exactly.  Last was as
> 6J9AA
> (XE1IIJ) in 1973, which netted 10K QSO's in 72 hours
> (before 5BDXCC - little
> low
> band activity) and which, to my knowledge, still
> stands as the two weekend
> record.  Although my friend Jim Neiger, who was the
> instigator of this
> effort,
> swears it's like riding a bicycle, I can attest that
> you don't just jump
> into
> the Grand Prix after 30 years with no effect.  By
> best estimate, was in 3rd
> place when I stopped, but 8P1A and WP3R were clearly
> ahead by several
> hundreds
> of QSO's.  Congrats to both.
> 
> Worse yet, it took a week to come out of the tunnel
> after the stuff moved to
> my
> chest and Bruce, who caught it just after I left
> (you're welcome, shipmate),
> is
> still feeling the effects.  Maybe that's why I've
> only done CW all these
> years.
> 
> Thanks to all for QSO's and especially Jay, VY1JA
> and Tom at W3DOS for
> moving.
> 
> Anybody got a battlefield cure for laryngitis?>
> 
> 
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