01/30/2005 | KB8U Recipe:

Sprinkle 1/8 tsp. tropo on frozen rotors. Add 1 marginal E-skip QSO and 7 'pounds' of QRN squeezed from power lines for 2m. Dust with 1 foot of snow and bake at 0 degrees farenheight to keep the rovers indoors.

I threw in the towel early Sunday afternoon.

Remember all those 5-star openings from contests past? This time the propagation gods cooked up a contest with this in mind: IT'S PAYBACK TIME!!

I entered Single op, low power. Here's the unofficial breakdown:

QSO's: 187
QSO points: 283
Mult's:87

KB8U CLAIMED SCORE: 24621

That's almost half my previous worst January score! It was still fun when the power line noise died down. See you in the next contest,

Russell Dwarshuis -- KB8U