[TVARC] 10 Meter Contest Final

Mon Dec 10 18:54:12 EST 2018

Egads Pim! I hope you are OK.
All the best,
George K2DM 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 10, 2018, at 6:37 PM, William De Miranda <pim.rdm34 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am glad you guys were having all the fun. Not so much for me. I was attending the Boca Ciega Yacht Club lighted boat parade and party Saturday night. I slept on the 34 ft sailboat of a friend in the BCYC marina. Then yesterday morning as I was walking into the bathroom, I passed out on the floor. Friends called 911 and paramedics brought me to St. Anthony’s hospital in St.Pete. They ran about $20 k worth of tests on me yesterday. This morning a cardiologist came in and said there was a problem with a heart valve, and  I needed a few more invasive tests, requiring an additional two days, and I said “no thanks, I’ll take it up with my cardiologist in The Villages”. I had to promise to see him pronto, and have my daughter drive me home from St. Pete, before they would discharge me.
> 
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>> On Dec 10, 2018, at 9:18 AM, RALPH WHITACRE <rwmw1932 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I do not know which impresses me more; your great effort and resulting score, or your ability to maintain a diary for 48 hours while operating !!!   Great job, Pete !!
>> 
>> Vy 73,     Ralph  N8RW
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On December 9, 2018 at 8:29 PM K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote: 
>>> 
>>> I really can’t complain too much about conditions for this contest, at this point in the solar cycle.  Well, I can, but it really did turn out pretty well.  We had propagation to much of the US, and some pretty good openings in each area.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Didn’t work any TVARCers today, but I did fail to include John, who yesterday called in as NP2B in FL.  Well, N1MM didn’t like the mismatch between callsign and state (DX sends a serial number instead)  and popped up a long message box that I attempted to read and respond to, all while I had a couple of other callers that I didn’t want to lose.  It did all work out, I’m glad to say.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Today’s opening started out at roughly 745a, this time to ON, NY, Quebec, and all of New England.  Just what I hoped for!  And the opening just got stronger and stronger.  I was calling CQ and they were coming back to me in droves.  The ratemeter pushed up to 203 at one point, with one 10 minute stretch at 2.6 contacts/minute (156/hr), and 1.8/minute (105/hr) for the full 60 minutes.  That was wonderful.  At about 845a I switched to SSB because I wanted to be sure to get all those multipliers, even though I needed to work SSB stations at twice the rate for the same number of points.  Working pileups is lots of fun on SSB when signals are loud, and especially to the northeast where I knew many of the guys calling and we could greet one another by name.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> As these conditions come, so they must go.  And just as it pretty much dried up I heard my first roll of thunder.  Great timing!  So at about 930a I disconnected both my antennas, the antenna relay box, and the rotator (not complaining you understand, it’s nice to have all that stuff that needs disconnecting once again).
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Tried again 15 minutes later, but then more T-storms.  Repeat.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Around 1015a the skies began to clear and just like that we had an opening to the LA, TX, and MS area.  Switched back and forth between modes and had all the multipliers from there except MS on SSB.  So I just asked for someone in MS to call, and sure enough someone did!  That never happens, BTW.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Activity got pretty light for the next few hours, and I had a hard time working stations.  Even took a short nap.  Had a little opening to the northeast once again, but nothing much. 
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> My frustration with not being able to work people finally caused me to check the yagi’s alignment, and sure enough, it had twisted around so that I was pointed roughly 90 degrees from where I thought I was looking.  That would explain a lot!  But by then conditions had worsened, and I shut things down to watch the Eagles game…don’t ask.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> So here are the final totals:
>>> 
>>> CW: 422 QSOs, 48 states/prov, 8 countries
>>> 
>>> SSB: 131, 31, 7
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> for a total of 553/79/15 resulting in 183,300 points.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I operated Single Op, Unassisted, Low Power.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 73, Pete, K2PS
>>> 
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