ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: TI5N
Operator(s): W8QZA
Station: TI5KD
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: non-North Am
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 1 1
80: 16 11
40: 71 28
20: 234 50
15: 414 53
10: 854 57
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Total: 1590 200 Total Score = 954,000
Club:
Comments:
I've never had even half this number of QSO's in a contest before. Condx were
great, I had a lot of valuable operating advice from my long time friend Phil
(N0KE), and I had the great antenna system at Keko's (TI5KD) QTH.
I had the following antennas for this contest:
10 M: 4 el Quad at 25 Mtrs
15 M: 3 el Quad at 25 Mtrs
20 M: 3 el Quad at 25 Mtrs
40 M: 2 el Quad at 25 Mtrs
80 M: Full wave Delta Loop
160M: Inv V at 30 Mtrs
The funniest thing that happened to me was that during one particularly large
pileup in the last 2 hrs of the contest, Keko's dog found a lizard or
something
just outside the window of the operating position. He started a loud,
incessant
barking that kept tripping the VOX, bringing my operation to an abrupt stop.
Fortunately, Keko's daughter quickly took him away, and I lost only a minute
of
operating time. But I can only imagine what that must have sounded like to
everyone in the pileup!
Bill Parker W8QZA / TI5N
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