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WR3O CW WPX SOHP UNassisted Score & Summary

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Subject: WR3O CW WPX SOHP UNassisted Score & Summary
From: WR3O@music-city.tdec.state.tn.us (WR3O@music-city.tdec.state.tn.us)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 21:50:02 -0500
                          CQ  CW  WPX  SUMMARY SHEET

    Callsign Used : WR3O         Operator : WR3O        Mode: CW

    Category : Single Operator High Power  NON-assisted
               (maybe that Tribander & Wires class but I can't
                find the rules for that at the moment...)

        Team/Club : Tennessee Contest Group              Equipment:

                                                         IC-761 & 75A-4
   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Prefixes      AL-811 ( 500w )
 _____________________________________________________   TR-LOG 5.63

   80CW        7           7         32        3    1/4 wave sloper at 70'
   40CW      266         260        666      131    dipole at 98'  (57A boom)
   20CW      727         708       1098      362    PRO-57A tri-bander at 98'
   15CW       47          46         94       22       "        "
   10CW        4           4          9        1       "        "
 _____________________________________________________

 Totals     1051        1025       1899      519 


    Final Score = 985,581 points.


 Soapbox Comments
 ________________

 My first try at the WPX Contest.  I had a good time despite the QRN.
 This was the first DX contest that I actually enjoyed myself some,
 probably because there was plenty of NA to work if the DX dried up.
 Having a relatively rare prefix helped, as I was able to run Europe
 for the first time (with plenty of NA mixed in...)  Sunday featured
 really bad thunderstorms, which limited my total operating time
 to under 35 hours.

 My goals were 1K QSO's and 1M points.  Made the first goal, and it
 was my first time to break 1000 Q's in a contest.  Slightly
 disappointed at not reaching 1 Meg (would've been another first),
 and if the thunderstorms hadn't happenned, who knows???  Quite a few
 zero point QSO's, but along with those come some nice prefixes too.
 Anyway, it gives me something to shoot for in future contests.

 Burned up the amp the thurs at midnight, and thought I was going to have
 to enter the low power category.  Managed to fix it hours before the
 contest started.   Thank goodness for my minimal skills & minimal junkbox.
 (Fried a padding capacitor on the bandswitch position  for 160 & 80...
 turned out I really didn't need those bands anyway...)

 Wow, what a Ham Radio week this has been.  Dayton -> WPX.  Talk about
 a good infusion of radio!  Sure was great to visit with some of you at
 Dayton.  (I was the guy with NO hair - a condition called alopecia.)
 As usual, I am already looking forward to next year.

 Thanks for the QSO's!   73, Kirk  WR3O

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