ARRL SSB DX Contest
KS4XG Single Operator Low Power (no assist)
"59 North Carolina"
BAND QSO COUNTRIES
80 3 3
40 49 27
20 162 55
15 85 36
10 2 2
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301 123 (x3) = 111,069
Worked 26 hours
Equipment: IC735 @ 100 watts, MFJ tuner, 20m Lazy-H (1/2 wl vertical spacing,
top wire at 62 feet, used on all bands).
Comments:
Making the Lazy-H play on 10-80 wasn't my original plan (sob stories
omitted), but after a very dismal Friday night on 20 meters I went
to work and arranged for matches on the other bands. I feel like I
got a lot of mileage out of this one set of wires.
Bagged a VK and a KH8 (one call each, 20m and 15m respectively)
before the cluster mob showed up, and got A2 after a few calls on
15m with the sound of the thundering herds approaching :-). I got a
charge out of each completed QSO on 40 meters. Getting out on this
band was the major nice surprise of the weekend.
The cacophony on 20 meters was quite a learning lab for training
the hearing. I feel quite lucky now to have gotten into this hobby
when the solar activity is bottoming out.
To Henry, WB4HFL and Ken, WM2C who promoted the Lazy-H over the ZL
or EDZ and led me to go with this first: THANK YOU!
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