[ILQSO] ki9a ILQP breakdown & comments

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Ick..

The flare caused problems! The hour prior to the start, I heard little on 20, 
& nothing on 10/15.  As the day went on, I actually worked some DX on 10, 
including 2 VK2's, CX, J69, KP4, LU, PY, V31, & YV. Would have worked XE1, but he 
kept coming up & saying " Mehiko city on frequency" "No speak english"

I tried some phoney Spanish, but I guess he didn't speak my version.

During the 2nd QSO on 20 at 1801z, some a-hole recorded my CQ & played it 
back to me. I just told him thanks, now I can give my voice a rest & let you call 
CQ for me! The same thing happened during the SS last year. It worked BOTH 
times! ;-)

I used writelog for the 1st time, nice program, but, spent alot of the 
contest messing with it...I even did this for the week before, thinking I'd learn it 
BEFORE the contest. Still some questions.  Having the telnet spots running on 
the computer next to me was better than the loggers spotting software.

Anyway, here is the breakdown:

18z 116 Q
19z  76 Q
20z  55 Q
21z  57 Q
22z 83 Q
23z  49 Q
00z  110 Q
01z    45 Q <- this sucks, I somehow lost 12 CW Q's while writing the 
cabrillo reports, most likely due to my dumbness while being prompted to save the 
unsaved Q's. 

MANY thanks to my Dad & step-Mom  (AD9P & N0UXQ) for going out & looking at 
all of the pretty leaves in Monroe, Randolph, Clinton, St.Clair & Madison 
counties!  My 16 elel 2 meter yagi turned vertical really helped with Clinton Co.
Now, if I can only convince him to put a 706 & HF antenna on the car, he is a 
bit resistant about this, really not a contester. I Also ran a couple locals 
2-160 both modes to take advantage of the 8 Q/county mults. The 2nd rig came 
in handy for that, even working 2 guys with my tribander on 160, so I didn't 
have to loose my run freq. I coulda done this several times!

I still think this rule, umm, well, with all respect for the cooridinators of 
the contest, sucks. For out of state guys it is great. For in state guys, 
well, even down here in St.Clair, I would have no problem taking 20 + locals 
2-160, both modes ( that is a whopping UNDESERVED TEN mutls, assuming you "only" 
have 20 guys!) . I had the oppertunity to this year!!  One guy equals 2 extra 
mults if you work him/her 2-160 both modes.

While I think it's a bad rule, & nobody would actually run 20+ guys thru the 
bands, what is stopping us (me included)? As long as the top score wins, & it 
is 
"legal", all bets are off.

Great job to the RAMS guys for another great Sunday afternoon!!!! Hats off to 
you guys!

Also, BIG THANKS to the mobiles! I tried to spot, but had trouble with the 
new software...

73! Chuck KI9A 
St.Clair CO
ICOM 746 & 728  w/Heath SB-1000 amp @ 600w
G5RV @ 45', A3 tribander @ 30', 3 ele 6m yagi & 25' & 16 ele 2m yagi @ 35'


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