Maybe because it's the weekend after Field Day and the pileup juices are still flowing? I don't know - but experimenting with my newly built magnetic loop on Sunday ....... I worked one. And after that, it was just all downhill. I found it to be just like that old Lay's Potato Chip commercial from the 1960s - "Bet you can't eat just one!"
After the first, I was committed. Probably my OCD, kicking in. Soon there was another in the log, then another and then another. Last night I was hunting for K2D for the last of the Colonies. I found him working LSB on 40 Meters. I must have shouted into that darn microphone for over an hour. I was shaking my head thinking, "Oh Lord, what have I done to myself?"
Then the Cluster showed K2D on 80 Meter CW. I figured that having been spotted there would be a gigantic pile up, but to my delight, there was only a medium sized pileup. Being in "home turf'" felt oh, so good! I threw out my call once - and I was answered with " W2LJ 599 CT".
Cool beans!
So I have all 13 Colonies and WM3PEN in the log. I suppose if I want a true "Clean Sweep" that I will have to work GB13COL in Britain. Trouble is, I've only heard them 2 or 3 times on 20 Meters and each time they were so weak, I doubted that I'd hear my call were it to come back to me.
I believe the Special Event runs until Midnight Wednesday into Thursday, so I will listen. But if I don't work them, my OCD will have to be satisfied with what we've gotten already.
And yes, "In for a penny, in for a pound." I will send away for the 2016 certificate, but I don't think I'm going to pop for postage for 14 individual QSL cards.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
Larry - FWIW, your QRP signal from the East Coast is probably about the same as my 1 kW from San Diego. I could barely hear GB13COL, and with the pileups, there was no way I was going to work them.
ReplyDelete73 de NC6K