ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: N7KU
Operator(s): NJ6D
Station: NJ6D
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Mode QSOs Mults
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CW: 1818 143
SSB:
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Total: 1818 143 = 1,039,896
Club:
Comments:
Wow! This was a fun contest!
First, my hat is off to Gary Bruins at Tucson Electric Power. Gary is the one
who looks after RFI. As of Wednesday afternoon I was still experiencing
s9+20-30 noise towards JA and lower levels elsewhere. Thursday morning Gary
calls and asks me to have a listen. It was dead quiet!! TEP fixed a cracked
lightning arrestor on a 30KV line about a mile or so away and presto - no
noise. Sure wish we could have done this for CQWW CW, but no complaints.
As with others the first hour was fantastic. Overall I think things were a bit
down from last year from Tucson. Waking up early on Saturday morning I found
some very strange sounding signals. Finally I pulled out W6EEN's call who was
wisper quiet with very brief momnets (half a character) of going to s9+ -
meteor scatter? Europe was pretty good Saturday morning. I was surpised to be
called by a handfull of OH's and SM's at around 20z, nearly midnight there.
There were lots of US stations to keep busy with during mid-day. Saturday
finished off with a good opening to Japan and some very loud signals from the
Northwest US.
I could still here some of the guys working a few stations late, but decided my
brain needed a break. Maybe this was mistake number one.
Sunday started with mistake number two. I got up at 13z, made some coffee and
found the band full of signals from EU. I turned the antennas to there usual
Eastward dirrection and the band was quiet again. By the time I realized what
was happening the opening was gone. I think it was long path, but not 100%
The short path EU opening Sunday was very short. At one point the rate droped
to about 45 while going head-to-head with a station 250hz down. I decided it
was time to move. A good thing, the rate went back up to 90 when I found a
place to run. More strange signals were heard during the mid-day hours while
working the US. All I could hear were brief, fractions of characters - drove
me nuts at times. I pointed one antenna due north and these snippets got loud.
Anyone else hear this, or was I loosing my mind? Towards the end the rate
came in clumps but stayed fairly good.
THANKS!!! to all who stopped by for a call and appologies to those I couldn't
hear to work.
It was really nice to be able to hear again.
Chuck
Equipment:
Ft1000MP + Henry 4K Ultra
Ant #1: 6elm home brew at 45ft.
Ant #2: 4elm home brew at 30ft.
WX0B stack master to run these in tandem
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