WAE DX Contest, RTTY
Call: N2FF
Operator(s): N2FF
Station: N2FF
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: East Williston, NY
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts QTCs Mults
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80: 0 0 0 0
40: 100 20 111
20: 62 30 68
15: 122 170 96
10: 31 40 44
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Total: 315 183425 260 319 Total Score = 183,425
Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
Comments:
I think I had more QTC than the program (Writelog) shows.
Thanks to all the folks who heard my peanut whistle - 100w and a 40M dipole at
50 feet with an FT 10O0MP. I started out thinking I would do a single band 40
meter assistged effort. Then I found out that the MP would tune on 20 15 and
even 10. And people came back to me. This beacme a fun pouncing experience.
Sorry I strained so many receivers around the world.
The downsized station station is the result of Sandy and then a Nor'easter. We
were one of the lucky ones. Lost electricity for 52 hours and INternet then for
over a week. There are still people inn my little vilalge who have no power and
no heat. Sandy bent the mast on my 3 element quad. I used that mast for over 30
years. The quad survived - no wires broken or fiberglass shattered. Amazing
since I lost part of an oak tree and two large maples.
Both wound up in neighbors lawns. One was uprouted and knocked over. I
estimate that the winds that did this were 90 to 100 mph.
I had the tower cranked down for the storm so I tilted it over and started to
take the quad apart to install a new mast. Then the nor'easter and the snow
came - 12 inches of wet snow and ice. The four spreaders still on the tower
had about 3 inches of snow and ice on them. One spreader eventually shattered.
I was surprised all of the did not break.
Most of the snow is now gone so I think I will be able to take the rest ofit
apart in the next day or two.
Despite all of this radio mess I consider myself lucky. There are others on LI
who are a lot worse off and nearly 100k still have no power and therefor no
heat. This is Katrina for NY and NJ!
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