[SECC] SS SSB - KB4KBS

[Scott Straw]

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: KB4KBS
Operator(s): KB4KBS
Station: KB4KBS

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 6.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    
   80:   5
   40:  30
   20:  22
   15:    
   10:    
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Total:  57  Sections = 34  Total Score = 3,876

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

It was a contest that really appealed to my inner-masochist.  To work as hard as I did for 6.5 hours and to only have 57 contacts to show for it should be down-right depressing.  My redemption comes from the fact that I did work 34 sections - including some new ones.  I used my 100W TS-450SAT and a slinky antenna which was unfathomably better than the Mobile Hustler attached to a magnetic base on a file cabinet next to the rig.  I could heard stations from all around the US and Canada finally, but being heard was still the tough nut.
Bottom line: I had fun but I need a better antenna set up.  I can only imagine what it would be like to operate at a "real" station. I'd probably
be so delerious that I'd get laryngitis.
Extra Point: Hiram Percy's Maxim struck again.  Only during PH SS weekend would someone be so inconsiderate and schedule a wedding on a Sunday night.

Thanks to all who worked me, especially those that took the extra effort to pull my puny signal out of the mud.  To those of you who said, "too bad, so sad, try again later," just how much later?  When I'm flush with mono-band beams?  I'm trying just as hard or harder to reach my goal of 60 as you are to reach your goal of 1600.  Next contest, lose the cavalier attitude or get better hearing aids.

KB4KBS
scottstraw at mindspring.com


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