ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: LA9Z
Operator(s): LA5KO
Station: LA9Z
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Lista JO38hc
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40: 166 29
20:
15: 680 58
10:
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Total: 846 87 Total Score = 220,806
Club: LA Contest Club
Comments:
I had planned to work SOSB 40m, but conds were so bad on Saturday I had to work
a bit on high band on Sunday to get some Qs in the log.
Very fun with some runs on 15m.
And finally something looking like a run on 40m the last couple of hours on
40m.
Is there a Single Op Two Band category ? :-)
It was a nice new experience to put up two phased Beverages for 40m.
On Saturday I thought it didnot work at all, - it made no difference on the few
big gun signals I could hear. The US stations were equally strong on the
Beverage to South America as on the new, phased Beverages.
On Sunday it was very different. Much better S/N on the phased Beverages than
on the simple vertical I used for TX.
I suppose the poor results on Saturday was because the signals didnot come in
the normal directions due to the Aurora / absorption, - probably skewed to the
south.
The two Beverages were 69m long, spaced 21m and about 2m high. Grounding was
probably mediocre due to partly frozen ground and using only one 3 feet CU rod
in each end.
15m was very fun, using the fairly new 5 ele OWA design Optibeam OB5-15 at 12m
AGL.
Thank you very much for calling.
73 de
Roy / LA5KO
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