[KCDXC] Contest weekend

Sun, 23 Feb 2003 09:22:28 -0800 (PST)

Congrats on the score, Mr T!  I pitty the fool who
tries to beat you at RTTY.  Hope it crushes the record
and stands for a while.  Next time you might have only
your own record to beat.

I messed around a little bit with 160 SSB.  I worked
about 110 folks.  First night was HORRIBLE with all
the static.  Second night was much better.

I worked 5R8GZ (If I remember right) for a new one on
20 meter CW.  He hangs out at 14.022 between 0300z -
0400z.  Usually no pileup as everyone thinks 20 id
dead and is down on 40 or 80.

Got a tour of downtown Kansas City, Kansas yesterday. 
I am a foster parent and got a call that some kid was
at the Juvenile detention center and no one could pick
her up.  So I drive from Wetmore a couple of hours to
pick her up and bring her out.  Only problem is she
was at the Juvenile Intake Center (Totally different
and very hard to find place).  I kept getting
different direction and driving all over little
Mexico.  Eventually I robbed a liquor store and some
cop took me where I needed to be.

It's been 25 years since I have been in downtown
Kansas City Kansas.  I see they've really done a lot
to fix it up.  (Yeah...and I've lost a lot of weight
since I got out of the Army)

Got the much anticipated KC DX Newsletter and my wife
read it one the way.  She read me the article about
her and the kids standing in the cold turning my
antenna and got a big laugh.  Not that it is a big
deal to make my wife laugh (she does it everytime I
step out of the shower) but it made for a more
enjoyable trip.  Thanks to the creativity of someone
who saw "This space needs to be filled" in the
newsletter column.  (Mikey?)

Well, it's snowing like crazy here in Wetmore right
now (11 am).  If you're not getting it over there, you
probably will soon.

Playing with DXKeeper and DXView.  Much to learn.

161,
Michael Z. Lew

--- Tom Baugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got in 2 contests this weekend
> the NAQP RTTY and a much smaller effort on the 160M
> SSB mess.
> Made 201 QSO's on SSB in a very casual effort of 4
> hours (including 90 Q's
> for one full run hour)
> I think Alan is going for the worked all Lone Jack
> 160M every month of the
> year (Nice to see you on)
> 
> In a more serious effort for our Nitty Gritty Rtty
> Team.
> I may have broken a Missouri and ZERO Record with th
> results below.
> 
> North American QSO Party, RTTY
> 
> Call: AE9B
> Operator(s): AE9B
> Station: AE9B
> 
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: MO
> Operating Time (hrs): 10
> 
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:    0     0
>    80:   86    33
>    40:  128    43
>    20:  172    46
>    15:  103    35
>    10:   22    12
> -------------------
> Total:  511   169  Total Score = 86,359
> 
> Club:
> 
> Team: Nitty Gritty Rtty
> 
> Great contest.  10M was not very good was awful but
> 15,20,40,80 provided
> plenty
> of action for this 10 hour contest. Despite the
> noise on 40 and 80 my BIG
> verticals seemed to do the trick. Sorry if I did
> hear your call.
> 
> Not sure of an updated record as the NCJ Web site
> shows the lates records
> from
> 1999. Perhaps someone can direct me to an updated
> site? If these numbers
> hold
> true, this would be a new Missouri record (by a
> bunch). Nice to print some
> quality DX in HR, I, YU, ZF, EA, JA, PJ7, UA9, VR.
> Thanks to Bruce (ZF) and
> Mike
> (KH) for moving bands.
> 
> Should have taken dinner a little sooner (there was
> a real dead period here
> late
> afternoon) when I got back thing were hopping again.
> 
> My first real effort runnig SO2R. What an incredible
> difference. In this
> mode,
> it allows you to keep the ball rolling when the
> bands change, always able to
> "sense" what's going on on the other bands.
> Thanks to the NCJ for putting on this event. I'm
> looking forward to many
> more
> to
> come.  Thanks for the QSO's.
> 
> Station "A"
> Yaesu 1000MP
> Writelog V10.10.39C with MMTTY
> Gateway PII-450
> Win98SE
> 
> Station "B"Antennas:
> 
> Yaesu 1000MP
> Writelog V10.10.39C with MMTTY
> Generic PII-350?
> Win98SE
> 
> Antennas:
> Force 12 C4SXL
> Wilson trapped tribander
> 40M 4 Square
> 80M dipole
> 80M 1/2Wave vertical
> 
> 
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