CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N3RS
Operator(s): K3IPK, N3ED, N3NA, N3RS, & W8FJ
Station: N3RS
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: EPA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 113 20 66
80: 721 32 110
40: 1262 37 143
20: 1467 38 137
15: 1047 29 115
10: 138 24 69
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Total: 4748 180 640 Total Score = 10,940,000
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This time, Murphy hit us BIG TIME! Less than an hour into the contest we lost
rotation of the top 5 el 20M Yagi. It was stuck at 130 degrees. Then we had
all sorts of problems with our Winkey to N1MM interface causing the F-keys to
stop working. This required many reboots. And then there was the noise! We
have been fighting with the local power company to fix some bad insulators on
the 34KV lines on several poles on my road. They produce intermittent, but
very strong noise all day long. During this weekend, it was the worst we have
encountered so far. It affected all bands, but was especially bad on 10M,
where we had to sit for long periods listening to S-9 noise coming from the NE
while 10M was open to europe, and on 40M, where we had to stop calling CQ on
Friday evening because we couldn't copy anything weaker than S-7.
Congrats to Howie's team at NY4A for a great job. Perhaps by the ARRL contests
we will have the noise problem fixed. Our thanks to all who called us and our
apologies to those we couldn't copy due to the noise. See you all in
February/March.
73 de Sig, N3RS
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