The conditions at the start were good, but got to be rather poor by
Saturday afternoon. Our score is down about 12% from last year. I
want to thank our op's for a good effort at this mini multi station.
This years crew included N3RD, N3ED, N3AD, N2SR, N3ZS, K3WU & N3RS.
We were unable to use our main 80M antenna due to high winds causing
the loading wires to short out intermittently, generating lots of
noise on the other bands and very high VSWR on the feedline.
Everything else seemed to work OK. Guess we are getting a little
long in the tooth for this stuff. Three of us had bad back problems
limiting our "In the chair" time. The following is the un-merged
breakdown from the 4 computers we used:
BAND QSO's Zones Countries
160 52 13 24
75 166 21 77
40 531 32 108
20 1162 39 151
15 1964 40 160
10 1646 36 164
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Totals 5521 181 684
Score ==> 13.3 meg.
Stations XCVR AMP Band(s) Antenna(s)
1 FT-1000MP Alpha 76PA 80/10 80M 4V-array
& 10M 5/5/5 stack
2 FT-1000MP Alpha 76PA 160/15 160M GP &
15M 4/4/4 stack
3 FT-1000MP Titan 40 3 ele Yagi
4 FT-1000MP-MkV Alpha 76PA 20 5/5/5 stack
We hope to do better in our more natural mode (CW)!
Club Affiliation: Frankford Radio Club
Classification: Multi/Multi
73 de Sig, N3RS
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