Stew Perry Topband Challenge - Dec 30
Call: KN7Y
Operator(s): KN7Y
Station: KN7Y
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 70 Total Score = 204
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
>From Arizona, ran 200 watts into an Alpha-Delta 40-80-160 Inv-V up 35', and
worked most every station I could hear except for faint signals. The band was
relatively quiet compared to other recent times however I learned that one
source of noise seems to occur each time an airliner passes overhead (our home
is in the flight path to Sky Harbor Airport).
Woke up a couple of times during the night to put about an hour in each time and
mostly H&P my way up and down the band within the bandwidth of the antenna
(about 1.800 - 1.830 mHz). A few short CQ runs resulted in catching some
stations that I may have otherwise missed.
In all, I worked 49 Grids. DX included Cayman Islands, Curacao, Hawaii, Mexico,
and Canada, and CQ Zones worked were 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 31; the reason for
noting is that I did not work the east-coast states (Zone 5), although I have
had a couple of QSO's with ops in the previous weeks from DE, CT, and other
east-coast states.
While I am a musician and have played a great number of big-band, classic rock,
country, and jazz gigs over the course of my adulthood, I still know that brief
feeling of "stage fright" before each gig that goes away while playing
the first song on stage. On the air, I am certainly familiar with, and not shy
to call CQ. But every once in a while, I get that bit of "stage
fright" when one of my peers comes back to my call sign. It reminds me of
my very first DX QSO in 1970 when I was 11 and my dad was sitting next to me.
My hand was shaking as I sent CW to G5BB, Alf, from our small Michigan
hometown.
Thanks to everyone for the QSO's and fun, and Happy New Year!
73 Jack KN7Y
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