Here is my effort foe WPX CW:
Call: KM0L
Country: USA (Mo)
Catagory: S/O, A/B, assissted, High Power
Tri-bander and wires
op: KM0L
Band Q's Pts Pfx's
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160 0 0 0 Inv L
80 4 10 2 Inv V
40 169 484 76 Rotatable Dipole
20 631 870 383 A4 at 65'
15 45 63 25 "
10 7 6 3 "
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totals 856 1433 489 => 700,737
rig: TS-940s (new rig for me)- MLA-2500B (700 watts)
soap: 20 meters was the only game in town, and it sucked. We had T-storms
all weekend and static crashes were horrendous- ran at least 20 db
attenuation until Sunday afternoon when it quit thundering and lighting-
it rained so hard that water started leaking thru the walls of the
hamshack and into the Drake C-line. Luckily they weren't on. Did a true
single radio operation this time to play with new rig- But even this
jewel of a reciever couldn't bring the weak ones thru the 27,000 over s9
static crashes. I will have to apologize to those I couldn't pull thru. I
even shut the station for about 3 hous Sunday morning and grounded
everything. Had to save the C-line, etc. Ended up getting about 34 hours in.
I'm a glutton for punishment.
CT wouldn't give me my hour time offs, so I'm not sure of actual time- it
said I operated 37.6 hours. There were a couple of hours where I just
came in and checked everything and made a contact or two and then shut it
all down again.
Anyway- wait till I learn how to operate this fancy rig- I may become
dangerous.
See you all in Field Day-
73 de KM0L Steve
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