2009 Sweepstakes v.CW Raw Score

Murphy. Murphy. He is notorious like a gunslinger of Clint Eastwood lineage sipping wrought gut, corn whiskey from a shot glass. He knocked at shackadelic's door this weekend, "C'mon punk. Make my day."

I lost.

Unusual problems lead to unusual solutions. I had a first-time ever radio frequency interference (RFI) cross hatching problem into the television set on Saturday afternoon. One can quickly take down Murphy or the skirmish can drag on, and on, and on. I substituted my doublet on the high bands (15m and 20m) with my 3-band trap vertical on Sunday morning.

The south leg of the doublet was tucked away from the vertical and I coiled my 450 Ohm window line as well. Would the doublet distort the signal pattern of the vertical? I was satisfied with performance however competing with dense packed signals on 20m was problematic.

Raw Score.
80m | 16 Qs | 7 Multipliers.
40m | 9 Qs | 4 Multipliers.
20m | 23 Qs | 15 Multipliers.
15m | 1 Q | 1 Multiplier.

Total Q = 49
Total Mults = 27
Total Points = 2,646

73 from the shackadelic on the beach.