i would suggest a sig or glock 40 caliber mounted on a boom mic towards
the side of your head. if your hand or foot comes off the mic switch,
the gun fires. the sound of the bullet whizzing past your ear should
awaken you quickly if the round going off did not. warning.... be sure
you do not do the funky chicken as you fall asleep and your head bobs to
the wrong side. it could hurt your ability to hear for the rest of the
contest.
73...bruce
On 7/10/2016 7:28 AM, Allen Brier N5XZ via BVARC wrote:
IARU HF World Championship
Call: N5XZ
Operator(s): N5XZ
Station: N5XZ
Class: SOAB(A)CW HP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 20:45
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
160:
80: 169 0 12 16
40: 378 0 23 35
20: 697 0 36 44
15: 212 0 18 25
10: 19 0 6 3
-------------------------------------
Total: 1475 0 95 123 Total Score = 968,574
Club: Texas DX Society
Comments:
I am so mad at myself! I fell asleep at 08:40Z and didn't wake up until 5
minutes before the end of the contest! HOW COULD I DO THAT!?? Things
were going
so well. I was easily on track to make well over 1500+ Q's and 1 mil plus
points. Crap! Next year, yes next year I will have to find some way to
stay
awake (but the bad thing is that I will be one year older.) :-(
In any case, as mentioned before, things did work well, including my
new 18HT
vertical. It only has 20 radials under it now, but I found myself
often beating
pileups where I never expected to. All equipment worked flawlessly,
except the
human interface part. (BTW, a BIG thanks to the wife for letting me do
this for
(almost) 24 hours!)
Rig: Elecraft K3/P3
Amp: ETO Alpha 78
Ant: 4-el SteppIR with 40 meter dipole @ 75 feet
Ant: 18HT Vertical for 80 with 20 radials
S/W: N1MM Logger + v1.0.5774.0
Int: microHAM micro Keyer II
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
Allen R. Brier N5XZ
1515 Windloch Lane
Richmond, Texas 77406-2553
(281) 342-1882 (Home)
(713) 705-4801 (Cell)
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