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[3830] ARRL Jan VHF W9SZ Single Op LP

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Subject: [3830] ARRL Jan VHF W9SZ Single Op LP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: w9sz@prairienet.org
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:56:49 -0800
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                    ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes

Call: W9SZ
Operator(s): W9SZ
Station: W9SZ

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: EN50
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
    6:           
    2:   7      6
  222:   2      2
  432:   3      3
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
-------------------
Total:  12     11  Total Score = 187

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Comments:

I guess I made a "token appearance" in this one.  Murphy was not kind to me this
weekend. 

I put up the antennas Saturday morning on a 25 foot mast in my yard with a
rotor at the bottom at ground level.  It was bitterly cold and I only put up
the 144, 222 and 432 antennas.  I had planned to also put up 1296 but had to
forego that before I got frostbite.

Then I found out the rotor didn't work. Shortly after that, when I rigged an
armstrong rotor, I found that a tree which hadn't been very tall in the
September contest had grown and was in the way of the antennas and I could only
rotate from northwest through north to northeast anyway. I didn't feel like
chopping it down in the cold.

I only heard and worked a few people compared to past contests. Apparently not
many people were pointing their beams my way. I suspect the Packers game took
away many of the casual ops who get on during the last few hours of VHF
contests on Sunday to hand out a few QSO's.

Enough of the "crying towel" story. I'm looking forward to the warmer weather
contests!


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