ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s):
Station:
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 7 6
80: 48 39
40: 86 46
20: 179 63
15: 313 80
10: 517 88
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Total: 1150 322 = 1,101,240
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
As I munched my pre-contest, first Friday of Lent, cheese sandwich, I took
comfort in the knowledge that Murphy must be Catholic. The rotor, which
stopped turning early in the ARRL CW contest is still stuck on Europe.
This results in my only 20 and 40 meter antennas being stuck in the
direction of the most contacts. Unfortunately, my 20 and 40 contacts
and multipliers will end up being far short of last years, because I
miss all those juicy multipliers in SA, the Pacific, etc. NO JA on 20
or 40 meters. Fortunately, my low band antennas have improved from last
year, when I just had one lazy vee for 80m. This year, my 40 square on
80m with my 75' high AKI special on 160m bring my final total score back
to last year's level, which was #11 in the LP overall standings. Maybe
someone will stumble and I will crawl into the Top 10.
Other station improvements include a Heil headset to replace the hand
mike borrowed from the 2m rig and a W9XT contest card which saves my
voice in all of those pileups. The net results was an improvement in
fun all out of proportion to the 50k increase in raw score.
During the Thursday night installation and testing of the DVK, my
computer monitor started to act up. Fortunately, I had borrowed a
second montior from K9MI and slapped it into place before the contest
started. When I first booted up the computer Friday, the monitor
"squegged" before bursting into the 50 line VGA mode, so it may not
be the monitor but the PC's integrated video chip. No more slots
in the old computer for a replacement video card (the last slot
used for the DVK card), so did not turn off the computer until the
contest was over.
This week is spring break - if the weather holds I will climb the tower
to bring down the rotor and check it out in the shack. It turns a
total of 2 degrees, then stops. It will then go back 2 degrees and
stop again. Over and over again. Sigh. At least the ring rotor on
my second 10/15 meter antennas again functioned perfectly.
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