[SECC] CQWWSSB K4VU SOSB 15m HP

[Robin Gist - K4VU]

i guess the murphy family was hitting the amplifiers this weekend.  as with cort, everything was fine until an hour before the test, when the 751 wouldn't key the amp through my freshly built external relay box.  the wires came out of the DIN plug in the back of the rig and spent two hours into the test just trying to get them back in (i *hate* DIN plugs).  then, suddenly the mic audio was really distorted, and then noticed that the ALC was higher than cheech and chong.  so, i pulled the plug and muttered a lot of words that i wouldn't use in front of your kids.  'oh well, i hate phone tests anyway' just didn't cut the rationalization, so i pulled the filterless 706 out of the truck, soldered yet another DIN connector together and played DX'er for a few hours on sunday.  no filters just sucked the big tater (especially with DF0HQ splattering over 30 khz), but it was fun just trying to see how many countries i could work in a day on a single band.

...and i did mess around on 40m for a while one night, just for laughs, but not in the score.

btw, nice job, cort!!!!  hope everyone did well.



15m:  166q's  77 countries  22 zones : total 44,748 : 6+ hours

73 / robin / k4vu