[SECC] WPX CW WH6YH SOAB LP

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Nice job Mike - glad to see you on the air. Be careful, that contesting bug can really bite.


Best - Jere, KT4ZB 



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Zolno <luv.myipad3 at me.com>
To: secc <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, May 31, 2016 6:37 pm
Subject: [SECC] WPX CW WH6YH SOAB LP



CQWW WPX Contest, CW WH6YH SOAB LP

Call: WH6YH
Operator(s): WH6YH
Station: WH6YH

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 15

Summary:
Band    QSOs
------------
160:    0
80:    10
40:    105
20:    184
15:    43
10:    10
------------
Total: 352 Prefixes = 236 Total Score = 317,656

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:
IC-7410, 100w, OCF dipole at 40ft as Inverted V. 


This was a fun event for me that generated lots of lessons learned. I need a better chair! My Sony-MDR NC-7 on-ear headphones (great for music) have too much tension and cause pain on the cartilage. I will look for a good set of comfortable over the ear headphones. If you can recommend one that function for long hours, I would be very grateful. I need to get better station integration and automation; every almost
everything was hand keyed which caused some serious issues with my CTS, arthritis and a pinched cubital nerve in my right elbow, and I am right handed. Naturally toward the end I was noticeably inaccurate - my sincere apologies to the distant end OPs. Not all, but a good number of OPs had difficultly copying my call, lots of WS6YS, W56YS, W5YH. Maybe a shorter call is in order? Propagation was excellent Friday night into Saturday as I managed to work several VK, ZS, ZL, ZM, KH and well into SA and AF. Back pain forced a long
sabbatical Saturday noon until Sunday as I did not start back up until the remaining 4 hours on Sunday. Sadly, propagation was nowhere near as good as it was Friday and Saturday and did not open back up to Eastern Europe/Western Asia until well into Sunday. Lots of very strong signals coming from EU but a short
band allowed only working US stations and prevented EU QSO until later in the day. After 23 years hamming, this was my very first long event "test" as I dip my feet in to this aspect of our great hobby. Thank you for the QSO, I truly had a lot of fun.

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