Team/Club : PVRC #1
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80CW 77 77 77 5
40CW 95 95 95 10
20CW 81 81 81 25
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Totals 253 253 253 40
Final Score = 10120 points.
My first time with high power *and* running the full 4 hours. Bettered my
previous best by 70 QSOs, and my first time over 10K points. It's a whole
new level of "fluster factor" at this rate, and next time I hope I'll do
better. Low point was having to ask some poor AB5 to repeat his call 4
times before I got "5" rather than "6", and calling N5KO several times on
the TR Log equivalent of the wrong VFO (in CQ rather than S&P mode). High
point was a 70-QSO last hour on 80, where the new antenna was a big plus.
Directivity isn't terribly useful in the Sprint, though - often I didn't get
the array pointed at the station until it was time to send "TU."
The setup:
TS-930/SB-220
20-40M: C-4 at 98 feet (rotable dipole on 40)
80M: 4-el K3LR-style parasitic lazy-vee array for 80
TR Log 5.95
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com
West (bigawd) Virginia
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