Call: W1VE (@K1TTT) Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Multi/Multi
BAND QSO COUNTRIES
160 58 47
80 210 63
40 640 80
20 1486 107
15 622 95
10 64 36
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Totals 3030 428 3,950,000
Hours: 36+/- hours on the air
Operators W1VE, K1TTT, WA1ZAM, NT2X, WT2Q
Club Affiation: YCCC
Essentially a 2-man multi-multi. K1TTT, WT2Q and WA1ZAM
helped with multipliers, even though CW is not their mode!
Arrived friday night 15 min. before contest w/no one there. Low bands
were great Friday night; spent lots of time jumping around catching
multipliers on 160, 80 and 40. NT2X arrived saturday morning, said
a quick hello and began running on 20m. He did'nt get up from the
chair till late in the evening. We expected W0AD, a recently-imported
midwesterner, to show up on Saturday, but important work commitments
took him back to the midwest. WT2Q + WA1ZAM stopped by to bring in
some mults on 10 -- will be great to work with them in the phone
contest. Saturday morning runs to Europe were excellent on 20 & 15,
pushing the CT rate meter past the 350 mark at times. On sunday, 20 was
still "honking", while 15 runs were spotty. Switched between S&P and run
-- packet spots were great. 80 & 160 were a complete loss sunday night --
noise was 20/9 on the beverages, from the big storm down in the gulf. Ed
had to leave by 2pm sunday, so it was back to Dave and myself for the
duration. Had a great run on 40 towards the end of the contest.
I brought along my FT1000MP for it's first big run in a CW contest;
the .0625Hz tuning rate makes a 250Hz filter feel very wide! Even
in very crowded 40m conditions, the receiver sounds so clean, compared
to the TS870s & TS940s we were also using. I love this radio!
Thanks to Ed for hanging in there with a very limited crew!
Always a pleasure to operate from K1TTT -- superbly engineered station,
sit down & plug & play, and an excellent host.
Thanks to everyone who worked us, and we'll see you in the phone 'test.
73,
-Gerry
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Amateur Radio W1VE/VE1RM
ex AK4L, WA4UUX, VE1CER, VE1SPI, CY9SPI, CY0SAB, VP2M/VE1RM
VE9DH CQWW M/M Contest Page http://www.inetmarket.com/ve9dh
W2SZ/1 MGEF VHF/UHF Contest Page http://www.mgef.org
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