FYBO Tale of Woe(tm)
AL7FS
My tale of woe is being generated because of the woe that the contest
rules have placed upon me. I was crushed by Joe Gervais
<vole@primenet.com>, AB7TT, when he posted that in order to be entered
into the FYBO drawing I had to have worked 5 stations during FYBO. What
kind of discrimination is this? Is it a U.N./alien conspiracy derived
to harm the hapless, propagationless, Alaska and other DX stations that
tried and tried and tried to make contacts? I would have thought that
for DX stations there would be a slightly lower limit on this drawing
rule . The five station rule obviously was meant for stations in the
Lower 48 (L48). For the masses, to make five contacts in the L48 is
totally easy. If you can t make five QSOs when you live in the L48 you
are not really trying.
Now, in my case, I really did try. All of the L48 stations were
creating QRM up the y___ y___ and there I sat trying to break though the
mess. The really quality stations, the ones that listen in between CQ
Test are the ones I was able to get to. :-) Thank you goes out
to:
WA5WHN (NM)
N4ROA (VA)
N4SO (AL)
WU7F (WA)
Getting back to my whining.....N4BP refused to work me...sniff! I
called and called and called and called and called and called and etc.
Time was centered around 2226Z with too many others calling the monster
station of BP. In fact, I am not so sure that they weren t on there as
a form of monster AL7FS Filter . It must be true as indicated by my
only being able to work four stations.
The propagation up here was so bad for the most part that I have to
think my storm was worse than that other sad station on the east coast
that complained about the wind and such. I had to contend with auroral
storms, AL7FS Filters, poor A-K indexes, and black helicopters plucking
my signals out of the air and refusing to let them reach the huddled (it
was cold, right?) masses.
So there I was, running QRO QRP of almost 5 watts, trying like crazy and
then this Joe Gervais fellow adds insult to injury by declaring that DX
stations, over 1450 miles from the closest L48 state have to have five
QSOs just like the masses. Not fair!! I need special dispensation for
my four contacts. I need to be in the drawing so that the US Lower 48
QRP operators won t get a bad name for the way they treat DX.
So there you have my tale of woe. Joe said I had to write it up if I
wanted any chance in FYBO. So as my final whine, I was even coerced
into writing this saga.
DX stations unite!!
With tongue-in-cheek ,
73/72,
Jim Laren
AL7FS
Alaska/DX/Worker of 4 FYBO QSOs
P.S. Joe, don t forget those bonus points! :-)
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