Oh I certainly don't REALLY hate Paul, nor Dan (N4ZZ) who also beats me quite often, nor even Jere who since the last ARRL SSB contest I look on as a bit of a rival. Jere probably doesn't know it but he beat me out a couple times during CQWW also.  It's just a figure of speech with me.
 
As you say, I do respect my elders Eventually though they'll get too old to push the power button and then maybe I've got a chance.  I'm only a ripe old 52 with many a year still in me until my teeth get too long.  Of course a drunk driver knocked them out in 1983 so they'll never get too long anyway!
 
Kevan

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tommy Alderman <aldermant@windstream.net> wrote:

Kevan,

 

It is not very nice to ‘hate’ N4PN as you are supposed to ‘respect’ your elders! After all Kevan, it took N4PN an awful long time to get that OLD!

 

Tom – W4BQF

 

 

From: secc-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kevan Nason
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:01 AM
To: secc
Subject: [SECC] CQWW SSB - N4XL

 

Some great scores by the club.  Good work. Heard several of you beating me out while trying to work EU, JA and SA.  I've grown to especially hate N4PN. I console myself by reading about the better antenna's, towers, and amplifiers you all have.

 

I'm going to lose some points during cross-check.  I know I messed up some manual band changes during the fun. A couple stations wouldn't work me again because they said I was a duplicate even though I didn't have them in my log.  Wish people would just work you again.

 

Had 40/80 meter antenna problems too which really killed my score this year.  Still, I've a much better upper band station than lower bands so 20/15 scores helped compensate. Never really got a run going anywhere.  I'm glad to see the sunspots coming back. 

 

Kevan

N4XL

 

====================

To: 3830@contesting.com
From: knason00@gmail.com
Subject: CQWW SSB N4XL SOAB LP


                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: N4XL
Operator(s): N4XL
Station: N4XL

Class: SOAB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 31.5

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    5     3        3
   80:   44    12       21
   40:   52    14       36
   20:  268    26       82
   15:  332    29       92
   10:   82     7       17
------------------------------
Total:  783    91      251  Total Score = 724,698

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Great 15m opening.  Glad it's back.

Well, Murphy stopped by with an intermittent failure of my 80/40 mtr vertical
-- my primary and only real DX antenna. A horizontal loop at 25 ft using 100
watts didn't really work very well for non-domestic contacts.  Anyway, 2-3
hours of prime operating time was spent troubleshooting that and crawling on
the roof troubleshooting, jumpering out switches, and running new coax to solve
it. Turned out to be a failed solder joint at the feed point of the vertical.  A
lesson learned for me is take the time to logically troubleshoot problems before
simply trying the first thing you think it might be.  Saves time in the long run
even though you think you might be doing better by jumping on the first thing
you think of.

Also had a known problem with loss of communications between my rig and
computer.  I know that I missed manually entering band switches several times
and went back to manually changed them as soon as I figured it out.  It's rough
trying to change logged bands on previous qso's and still work new ones at the
same time.  You think someone would make a log program that allows that! (Hi
Hi)  I am sure I messed some up and that will cost me some Q's and Mults.
We'll see how the final score falls out.

Thanks to all.

Kevan
N4XL


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