[SECC] WPX SSB AA4LR SO(TS)AB LP

[Bill Coleman]

                     CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: AA4LR
Operator(s): AA4LR
Station: AA4LR

Class: SO(TS)AB LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
  Band  QSOs
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   160:    8
    80:   20
    40:   39
    20:  100
    15:   96
    10:   27
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Total:  290  Prefixes = 201  Total Score = 138,690

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:


Equipment:
Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100
Homebrew K1KP-style voice keyer (1 message)

Antennas:
A3S/A743 at 15m (10-40m)
Shunt fed 15m tower (80, 160m)

Comments:

For some reason, my comments didn't come through before, and my score  
was all messed up. I'll try again.

Not enough time in a busy weekend to do this one full time. But, I  
managed to put together a few hours to hand out some contacts and  
work a little DX.

Managed to work NQ4I on all six bands within 2 hours of operating  
Friday evening. Best help I could be, since I could head down to  
Ricks to operate. Those guys did a tremendous job!

Heard F4DNW calling CQ on 40m for North America and listening up.  
Unfortunately, he was listening on 7151 kHz -- which isn't legal for  
the USA if you are running LSB. OOps.

Glad to hear NJ8J work PY2ADR just before I did. Ben's birthday  
present was getting his radio fixed. Good to see he's putting it to  
good use.

Oddest moment was hearing KM9P calling CQ. I remember Bill's old  
call, I even used it during the SS Phone 1995. Good to hear it on the  
air again.

Had one really bad moment. Called a DX station and got a report, but  
I had missed his callsign. So, I asked for a repeat of his callsign.  
He asked for my number. I asked again for his callsign. Somehow, this  
really pissed him off, so he said something like "Negative" and  
started calling CQ again. I called him repeatedly for the next 20  
minutes, but he refused to work me. At one point he called me and  
asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted to make a contact. He  
said, "OK Bye", and started calling CQ again. I tuned up the band and  
came back in a half hour. He was still there, so I called him six or  
seven times, but then he disappeared.

I found the whole experience very disturbing. Extremely unsportsmanlike.


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Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901