ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: K1LT
Operator(s): K1LT
Station: K1LT
Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: Ohio
Operating Time (hrs): 19.25
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 441 82
SSB: 89 34
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Total: 530 116 Total Score = 225,272
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
The first semi-serious entry into any contest is always interesting,
since one doesn't really know what to expect. The last time I did
this contest in a serious fashion was in 1973 from Massachusetts as
WA1LKU. Things are a little different now.
I wasn't sure whether how much attention to pay to phone, since I
prefer CW. So when CW got slow, I popped up to the phone segment and
chased multipliers and easy to work stations, i. e., Florida, Texas
and Brazil.
The X7 seemed to work OK. The initial high SWR at 28.4 MHz
disappeared after a few minutes, so a potential intermittent problem
remains. The X7 is on top of a 60 foot tower which is 220 feet from
the house. I have some recycled 1 1/4 Heliax making the 220 foot run,
but about a 100 feet on ancient RG8 from the Heliax up the tower to
the beam. Before the contest I debated spending some time to swap out
the RG8 with something better, but I would only be able to manage a
half db improvement or less. Now after dozens of ESP class QSO, I
wish I had replaced that RG8. Next time!
The surprise multiplier was V51YL during a Sunday afternoon run of
Florida and Texas stations. Worked about a dozen Europeans, evenly
split between Saturday and Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon was much
better.
Seems like all of the Mexican stations suddenly appeared about 2000Z
Sunday, and then mostly disappeared within an hour or two. They need
to hang around longer! Managed only to work about 6 states, although
I heard several more.
Nice to work several ZLs, a VK, and FO8RZ. Worked all of the "hard"
states, but missed VT, ID, MT, MO, and ND. The central part of the US
really didn't make itself known to Ohio until the last 3 hours of the
contest.
Interesting propagation to WA and BC Sunday afternoon, by way of
beaming southeast (and to a lesser extent, beaming east-northeast),
which was handy while running all of those FL stations. Is this a
back-scatter mode or something else?
See you in the Stew Perry test.
DX worked: C6, CE (10), CU, CX (6), EA (7), F (4), FM, FO, FY, GD, HC,
HI, HK, HP, J3, J6 (2), J7, KP4 (3), LU (28), OA, P4 (2), PJ2, PY (33),
ST, SV, V2, V3, V5, VK, VP5, VP8 (2), XE (5), YV, ZF, ZL (3),
and ZS (3).
Equipment: K3, ETO-91B (thanks Jeff), Cushcraft X7 up 60 feet and
Writelog.
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