My results:
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes
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40SSB 105 105 274 91
20SSB 254 254 501 166
15SSB 8 8 24 7
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Totals 367 367 799 264
Final Score = 210936 points.
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Comments:
I entered this contest to test an old beam, 3 elements, I've got for free
from a friend. During the first night I staid awaked and worked on 40m with
a vertical. I didn't make any 80m qso's as the vertical is tuned for the CW
portion
of the band! As the propagation was bad to the states, I decided to erect
the beam the next morning. As I had only one coax cable going into my shack,
I could only be qrv on the higher bands. BTW I heard no signals on 10m...
I put the beam on a 4-5 meters mast and pointed it to the east, hoping to catch
some JA's. I worked a few stations from YB, HS and P29 but no JA's.
Soon after I rotated the beam into USA and staid here for the rest of the
contest. The beam seamed to work good so I could be happy with it and buy
next a rotor and an antenna switching box!
Antennas:
vertical AP8 used at the beginning of the contest.
Beam 3 elements Hy-Gain. Unknown model as I have no docs about it (could
be a TH3JR)!
Transceiver:
FT-1000 with linear Ameritron AL-1200
PC:
486DX-40MHz + TR v5.61, no packet
Remarks:
It was funny to operate this contest but I really prefer CW... so cu in WPX
CW!
73, Cedric HB9HFN
Happy Easter!
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