Well that's it.
Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty
7 102 287 21 30
14 678 1997 32 77
21 253 738 26 44
28 268 789 16 17
Total 1301 3811 95 168
Score : 1,002,293
Gear is K3 + SPE 1k, antennas Hex and OCF dipole on 40 m.
I was using N1MM for logging. The program had matured in the last number of years. It works very well.
All the gear associated with the station performed flawlessly. No issues what so ever.
I did not go as well as last year.. (last year: 1593 QSOs and 1,290,266 points).
However:
The conditions were very good.. My feeling that 10 m was not as good as last year, but there was plenty of action.
I did find the 40 m signals little down, but the 15 m and 20m was great.
That brings me to a nostalgic thought... next year we may/should have "the pleasure" to have lesser condx. Who knows. Now the thought in my mind is, that in 11 years I will not have the mental and physical capacity to do it again... So that's it... (depressing eh?).
I may conclude with the usual grumpy remark:
The EU ZOO was "right on mark" (God it is hard to work them). The last couple of hours of the contest on 15m (where the condx were superb) the US cousins gave me hard time trying to match the EU cousins.. (shame on you cousins). There is a rule: Listen first and then press the F4 key.
The JA as always were gentlemen.
If I had stepped on anybody toes... please forgive the old bloke... it was not intentional.
Forgive the old grumpy man. At my age I have the right to be grumpy.
Thanks to all who called me... it was fun despite that my blood boiled few times. You all had GREAT signals.
ta
73
Patrick VK2PN
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| This is me... after the contest. Sad, but glad. Cheers to all participants and thank you. |
You don't look very happy Patrick!
ReplyDeleteThink of all the smiles you brought others when they worked a VK!
And . . . think of all the lovely QSL cards that will be coming from Japan and likely a few of the "EU ZOO" gang will be seeking your card as well.
Very nice job. Your score is very respectable and remember for the future that you have contesting friends who will likely want multi-op contesting for the same reasons as you.
Congrats on a fine effort. 73 Steve VK3TDX
Always enjoying your commentary on the radio hobby from the Old Man's perspective, Patrick! Keep up the good work. You are an encouragement to the rest of us DX try-hards ;-)
ReplyDelete73 de Ben VK2BEN