Stew Perry Topband Challenge
Call: AE0EE
Operator(s): AE0EE
Station: AE0EE
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MN
Operating Time (hrs): 11
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 335 Total Score = 1,569
Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn
Comments:
100 W, dipole up ~30', keyed entirely on a vibroplex bug.
What a contest! I planned on a pretty full-time effort, and was able to follow
through with that plan. The score that resulted is my best yet for a TBDC.
I started around 4:45 PM local on Saturday, and was soon running. About 2.5
hours later, a DX station that couldn't hear me spelled the end of the run.
Later in the evening I was able to return and run for a while longer, but when
the crush of prime-time operators got on, I wasn't able to hold out against the
bigger stations. After things started to calm down later at night, I once again
got a run going.
While most of the contest was a really fun experience, it was tinged with a
sense of loss for W0AIH. During one of the big contests last year, I had the
honor of operating 160 m overnight, because Paul was engaged as a Rent-a-Rev in
the morning. This weekend as I called CQ into an almost entirely worked-out
band, I remembered doing something similar from The Farm (though a lot more
stations had been worked from W0AIH).
That said, this weekend I did work a number of DX stations (PJ2, KV4, KH6) on
the first call, which is pretty rare with my low horizontal antenna.
For "next year" I'd love to have a vertical antenna, or one which is a
little better for DX. While an RX antenna might help things a little, most of
the stations that were calling me were pretty loud and clear.
Next year I should also think better of putting in big efforts in both the RAC
winter and TBDC contests back-to-back. The keying was getting pretty bad toward
the end of the TBDC.
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