ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: K0TV
Operator(s): WO1N, K1BG, K1TWF, K2TE, KB1NEF, N1ICE, W1END, W1KQ, K0TV
Station: K0TV
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: New Hampshire
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 36 28
80: 230 69
40: 238 75
20: 1143 99
15: 423 84
10: 4 4
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Total: 2074 359 Total Score = 2,180,925
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I canâ??t wait for 10 to come back. Sunspots, where are you?
A couple of new operators were added to Team K0TV for this year. Eldon, W1END
who is a standout CW op decided to try his hand at phone. He said that with the
first five contacts, heâ??s doubled the number of contacts heâ??s made since he
got licensed back in the 1950s. On the second day, Eldon decided to try 40
meters. Talk about trial by fire!
The second new op this year is KB1NEF who has only been licensed for about a
year. Rich came by the first night and really helped out at the start with
moral support and then took a shift on 75 meters. Saturday morning, he came to
operate straight from having some medical tests done. Sunday he came and was
moral support all day right up to the end of the contest. He even helped clean
up both during and after the contest.
The third new op this year is K1TWF, another CW standout wading into the SSB
end of the pool. After a couple of frustrating hours, Mike decided that there
must be a problem. He was right. We were trying to run 20 on the 160/80 off
center fed dipole which has a good SWR on 20 but is certainly not as good into
Europe as the stack.
Late Saturday and of course Sunday the stack did a great job in itâ??s final
use prior to being replaced next year. We almost managed to recover for all
those hours on the wrong antenna.
Thanks to everyone who called in and made this another fun SSB contest.
This yearâ??s MVP goes to Ken, WO1N for doing both overnights and doing shack
cleaning in his spare time (?). Ken also had some good afternoon runs on 20.
73, Jerry
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