Topband: 160 to NA

[Eric Rosenberg]

I confess, I'm one of those mindless CQers.  Sort of. 

I cobbled the station together after 8 months off the air, but never got my rx antennas 
or the bandpass filters installed.   In the end, I could hear lots of folks calling at 
my noise floor, but couldn't pick most of them out. Nothing particularly new or unique to 
that, but very, very frustrating.  

The combination of the high noise levels here in Washington, DC, apparently being the only 
one on from this mult, having a special event callsign AND my rustiness (apologies to the 
many folks whose call I busted) did not help. 

I started late both nights (after midnight local) and managed to miss the EU openings on 
Saturday and Sunday morning.   NS3T , about 5 miles from me, made them both and too, 
worked KL7 (first time he's heard one -- I've never heard one). I think Jamie made WAS. 
I missed AR, KS, SD, WY, AK.  I worked  25 DX, he worked more than 40. 

Not my best effort by a long shot. I ran 95% of the time, a mistake. I should have been 
S&Ping more for mults.  That notwithstanding I had my best continuous and hourly rates.

Looks like this spring and summer will be spent fixing the antennas and making certain
everything works before the next contest starts. Hopefully, I'll stay injury free in 2009 
-- 2 rounds of knee surgery tn 2008 certainly put a damper on  my efforts 

Again, apologies to those I didn't hear and those whose call I busted. 

See you in the next one! 

Eric W3DQ (op, W3A)
Washington, DC 

421  QSOs.        
 77  Multipliers  (52 States/Provinces)
 25  DX 

= 101024    Claimed score


LA5HE Ragnar Otterstad" <la5he at otterstad.dk> wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: Topband: 160 to NA
> From:
> "LA5HE Ragnar Otterstad" <la5he at otterstad.dk>
> Date:
> Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:50:36 +0100
> To:
> <topband at contesting.com>
>
> To:
> <topband at contesting.com>
>
>
> I slept late this morning so worked just a few stns.
>
> Cannot help thinking, that if more stations would listen more carefully
> instead of CQ-ing endlessly, there would be more DX-qsos !
>
> 73 and have fun
>
> Rag LA5HE
>