CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: KK1L
Operator(s): KK1L
Station: KK1L
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: VT
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 12 6 9
80: 81 10 40
40: 59 16 34
20: 31 11 19
15: 25 12 19
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 208 55 121 Total Score = 99,616
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
A very limited operation 15min here 15m there except for some of Saturday
evening and the last 50min of Sunday.
I have been debugging a busted FT1000D off and on for a couple weeks. I have
pretty much determined that the PLL is bad. However I dropped a probe on the
display board and it must have shorted something out. The display is blank and
there is a pretty loud whine from the board. I am pretty sure the whine is from
the buck-boost switching supply on that board. I have ruled out a zener or caps
being bad. I might have fried a display driver/buffer chip. More work to do on
it, so I stayed single radio with the TS850.
I also had some work to do on the tower and have been trying to fit that in
before the contest. The weather was fantastic for several days and I was able
to work in most of what needed doing. The largest job was getting the element
back on the 2el40 that fell off earlier in the Summer (a story in itself)! The
2el40 is 11' up a mast on the top of the tower. Needless to say that job is a
bit of a PITA. That and the other stuff (upper CR5 rotator rebuild/regreas,
lower 1000SDX clamp repair) ended up getting finished by Saturday lunchtime
well after the contest started.
My ham radio time chits had been spent catching up on the repair work, so
Saturday was spent on yard work until the weather turned Mr. Hyde in the late
afternoon. Then again Sunday the weather was back to Dr. Jekyll and yard work
and winter preparations.
I found that something is a bit squirrelly with the tribanders. Very poor VSWR
response. This was new and explains the very lackluster reports and feeling I
had on 20m and 15m. I have some work/investigation to do yet, but it appears I
have some antenna switch issues. The 40m and 80m use the same feed to the shack
and the VSWR at the bottom of the tower for both tribanders is not bad. I did
find that 40m beam is affecting the top TH6 10' away. I have to try putting
them 90 degrees out to see if that helps. I am not sure there will be a good
opportunity for me to get up the tower again for that experiment.
Well I seem to have written nothing but reasons for not operating the contest a
whole lot, and not much about the contest itself! I thought the conditions on
the low bands were very nice. Working EU on simplex was wonderful and also many
many folks were working 40m split. Often EU takes a pass at split for WW saving
it for when they have to during ARRL DX.
Fun time while I was on.
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