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Subject: [3830] KE9NA WWPX SO AB HP TBW
From: jono@enteract.com (Jon Ogden)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:18:05 -0600
CQ WW PX Contest 1999

Call: KE9NA

Category: Single Op/All Band/High Power/Tri-band & wire

Equipment: FT-1000D
           Homebrew 4-1000A Amplifier (80m - 10m)
           TA-33 Tribander at 40 feet on roof tripod
           Hy-Gain Vertical at 15 feet on hill in backyard
           G5RV at 35 feet
           Inverted L for 160 M

Score:

Band          QSOs            Points         Prefixes

10M           268             679             112
15M           621             1633            244
20M           739             1544            302
40M           55              282             32
80M           113             192             40
160M          33              54              12

Total:        1829            4384            742

Total Score: 3,252,928

Total hours of operation:  35 Hours 19 Minutes

Comments:

WOW!  What a blast!  This was the first time I have really worked this 
contest since about 1989 when I was in college at W9YH.  It is also the 
first contest I have worked since getting my PA up and running a few 
weeks ago (Thanks to all those around the world who congratulated me on 
it!  I didn't realize it was that famous!).  It sure made a HUGE 
difference over low power operations in the past.  I just have to RFI 
proof my shack and house - my stereo turned itself on!  No complaints 
from the neighbors though.

20M was good Friday night but was really noisy on Saturday morning.  So I 
went up to 15 which was just fantastic to Europe.  Had some really nice 
European runs for a while and then went up to ten which was also very 
active but nice and QUIET.  I could actually hear the weak stations.  My 
S meter actually rested on 0 during times of receiving no signals!  It 
helped.  Saturday afternoon brought some nice JA runs which I have never 
done before.  Saturday night got kinda frustrating for a while, but then 
I managed to work a T33 and an E41 on 20.  

Sunday was kinda slow to start.  20 was OK, and 15 wasn't bad but 10 
never took off.  I could hear plenty of the big guns but that was about 
it.  I was hoping that I would start hearing lots of South American 
stations on both Sat and Sun afternoons, but never really heard that 
many.  Usually there are more LUs on the band than you can shake a fist 
at.  Not this weekend.  20 M ended up being incredible Sunday afternoon.  
I had some great runs and a huge one ran for about an hour where I 
managed to keep up a QSO rate of almost 80 Qs an hour for a whole hour 
(Rarely did I drop below 40 for the whole weekend).  All was going 
swimmingly until the SSTV guys decided that I was too close to their 
precious 14.230 MHz frequency.  They decided to move up a couple of KCs 
and start clobbering me.  I held on and only diminshed the Q rate 
slightly for about an additional half hour.  One guy had the cajones to 
tell me I was interfering with him!  I lost my cool at that point!  All 
it would have taken was for them to politely ask me to move and I very 
likely would have (later in the afternoon a guy from a net farther up the 
band *nicely* asked me to QSY due to the net - I did.).  I eventually 
left that frequency as I needed to take a break anyhow.

OK, enough rambling!  I am psyched that the Tri-bander category exists as 
guys with just modest stations can compete.  


Highlights: Having a V5 station work me on 2 different bands and working 
a TA station for the first time ever.

This was great fun and I look forward to more next year!

73,

Jon
KE9NA


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Jon Ogden
KE9NA

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