[ILQSO] K9DUR/P Results

[KI9A at aol.com]

Ray, you got on the air. That's what counts!
 
hang in there, pal!
 
73- Chuck KI9A
 
 
In a message dated 10/21/2008 9:20:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
k9dur at rnacs.com writes:

Class:  Illinois Portable (Single County)
Location: Lincoln  Trail State Park, Clark County

QSO's by BAND (All Phone):  75m=1,  40m=21, 20m=5, 2m=1
TOTAL QSO's = 28

Mults:  States=6,  Provinces=2, DX=2, Counties= 15
TOTAL MULTS = 25 

CLAIMED SCORE =  700 (28 Phone QSO's X 25 Total Mults)

YUCK!!!

Defintely NOT the  results I had hoped for.  Apparently, the effects of the 
radiation  treatments were still with me more than I realized.  We arrived in 
the  campground at dusk on Friday evening.  Got the camper set up & went  to 
bed.  Saturday morning started setting up the antenna system, not a  big task.  
But, when K9JMA had to leave for her quilting class just  before noon, I went 
into the camper & slept all afternoon.  Got up  Sunday morning still feeling 
pretty wasted, but with the help of a friend,  managed to finish setting up 
about an hour before contest start.

Got  off to a great start with my 1st contact with VE1SKY on 20m.  Thanks to  
the NS/NB guys for their participation!  I made a couple of more Q's on  20m 
& then turned it over to Steve, NT9T, who had come over to help me  finish 
setting up.  He made a few more 20m contacts including a "real" DX  contact with 
our club operation on the other side of the park, about a mile  across the 
lake.  When he had to leave for home, he switched the antennas  to 40m for me, & 
I slept for a couple of hours.  I got up a little  after 2000 UTC & made 
contacts on 40m until my stamina gave out.   Time for another nap!  I got up a 
little before 2300 UTC and started on  75m.  1st contact was with K9NR in Kankakee 
County.  But I was not  able to make any more Q's on 75m at all.  Stations 
with signals strong  enough that I should have been able to work them easily 
could not dig me out  of the noise.  Also, the LDG AT-100Pro was behaving 
weirdly.  I  don't know if I had a grounding problem causing RF feedback or what, but 
I  definitely did not feel like trying to troubleshoot it.  So, I tore down  
the equipment so that we could fully set up the bed & called it quits, or  at 
least I thought so.  I still had my handheld connected to a J-Pole at  21' 
monitoring 146.550 MHz simplex.  Just before the end of the contest,  Mel, 
KJ9C/m, called me & I logged my sole 2m contact.  Also, was glad  to put Clark 
County in the log for Mel.

Broke camp yesterday morning  & drove home.  All day today was taken up with 
my 1st chemotherapy  treatment.  (I get to wear a pump 24 hrs/day until 
Sunday.)  We will  start unloading the camper & winterizing it tomorrow.  No rest 
for  the wicked!

I would have to classify the 2008 ILQP as not quite so much  fun for me, but 
we enjoyed ourselves.  But, we are looking forward to a  better 2009, 
hopefully back in Hardin County.

73, Ray,  K9DUR




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