The Bands Were Hell Yesterday

Here’s my no-serious-attempt log from the HellFest contest.

Snip of my cqrlog showing 12 HELL contacts yesterday.

12 contacts, x2 for barefoot, that’s 24. Band-points per State: I see 10… 34.

Screenshot of HellFest Rules from https://hellfest.digital/rules/

I was in the chat on Josh’s YouTube Stream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8R4fPGiWNM), and around 1:14:00 in, I asked him if he was going for the 100 bonus points. He made some excuse as to why he wasn’t going to be in costume yesterday, and I mentioned that I was gonna change into a kilt.

Screenshot from KI6NAZ's YouTube stream in which he pops up a comment of mine.I told Josh (in chat) that I was changing into my Kilt. Josh asks, "Is a Kilt costume?"

Josh sounded unconvinced that a Kilt is a costume. Here’s my argument… he’s in California, where nobody bats an eye at extremely various styles of attire. I’m in MN, and if it isn’t Halloween or St. Patrick’s Day, an Irish Tartan garners “WTF” looks from people, especially since I’m mostly Swedish, with no Irish or Scottish. And I’ve worn it on Halloween more often than for any other event. So to me, it counts.

Swedish-American dork wearing an Irish Tartan, operating Feld-Hell on HF radio.

So there we go: 100 Bonus Points. Total: 134.

I will probably not be submitting a log to the folks who run the contest.

By Kelvin D. Olson

Not saying much here. What you really want to see is https://mastodon.hams.social/@kelvin0mql