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Subject: [3830] K6LA CQWW CW SO HP Unassisted
From: KWIDELITZ@delphi.com (KWIDELITZ@delphi.com)
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 23:12:07 -0500 (EST)
     Call used: K6LA                                        Location: Zone 3
     Category: Single Op All Band         Mode: CW          Power: 1500
     46+ hours

     band    QSOs   points    zones     ctys
     160        0        0        0        0
      80       63      132       13       23
      40      644     1795       28       87
      20      371     1039       31       78
      15      721     1979       29       97
      10      509     1433       26       80

     TOTAL   2308     6378      127      365         SCORE: 3,137,976
 
     Club or Team Name: SCDXC

     Equipment Description:
        
     TS-950SDX (2), SM-230 (2), Alpha 87A (2), JPS ANC-4 (2) 
     DuneStar  Bandpass Filters, TopTen Automatic Stub Selection Boxes  and 
     Band Decoders, DuneStar antenna phasing boxes for stacks.

     160 Meters:   Nothing - Balloon Vertical Blew Away   
     80 Meters:    Force 12 EF280S Short Shorty 80 @ 77'
     40 Meters:    Force 12 EF340 3 element monobander @ 72'
     20 Meters:    Force 12 EF420 4 element monobanders stacked at 85'/53'
     15/10 Meters: Force 12 EF515/410 5 element on 15 / 4 element on 10
                      interlaced on one boom, stacked at 53'/33'

     Comments: 

     Opened with a 115 hour JA run on 15 meters. 40 was open to EU till
almost midnigh both nights. I didn't hear any over the pole Russian/Scand
on 20 at either night like last year. Guess 40 stole the EU propagation at
that time. Both days 20 opened to EU from the West Coast at exactly 1400. 15
& 10 opened shortly thereafter. Had my best ever DX contest rate of 127 on a
15 meter EU run 15Z Saturday morning. What a blast! 

Murphy struck in the form of antenna problems (posted to CQ-CONTEST.) The
only other negative was after waking up from my only sleep break 12Z Sunday,
I walked in the shack and immediately knocked over a full glass of ice tea.
It ran under both rigs. I then spent 15 minutes soaking up the mess. 

Never heard zones 22, 34, 36 or 37. Can't believe I never caught any of the
M/Ms from there. It felt like I was S&Ping on the 2nd radio most of the
contest.

Of my 2308 QSO's 1059 were JAs (I sure wish they had 1X2 calls. That would
save more time than cut numbers. It seems like every JA suffix is some 3
letter combination of J, P, Q, X or Y.) Next highest was DL with 118, W at
118 and VE at 87. Actually had more EU on 15 than JA. 

Almost no doldrums and lots of neat DX. This is contesting at its best. See
you in the ARRL 10 meter contest.

73. Ken, K6LA - Ken Six Los Angeles, KWIDELITZ@DELPHI.COM
                

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