CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K7XC
Operator(s): K7XC
Station: K7XC
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: NV - DM09jh
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 9 5 6
80: 64 17 32
40: 87 25 46
20: 129 27 74
15: 91 21 43
10: 41 12 21
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Total: 421 107 222 Total Score = 356,307
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Great to work all the old friends again! Moderate to good conditions at the
start but little from over the North all weekend. Low bands were fun Fri Night
till dawn. High bands were moderate to good but near sundown the bands began to
degrade until the end. Worked hard to put up a brand new to me AB577 mast a
friend gave me up in time to host the full size 3ele 20M mono-bander at 43
feet. took 2 weeks to get tuned but well worth the effort. Spent 4 days
fabricating a new the rotor plate design and installing it on the tower
trailer. Once done it was able to hold the 3ele 15M and 4ele 10M Mono-banders @
25 / 30 feet. Installed the 80M/40M combo Inverted Vee at 39' with it finally
resonating correctly just after sunset on the Thursday before. The 25 ft tall
170 ft long 160M Inverted L is now located on its own mast 150 ft from the
shack and works OK but needs more work to make it what it could be. No
beverages yet but have enough room and wire for two 1000 foot runs, hopefully
in time for CW. The recently repaired IC-746 did a good job while driving an
AL-80B to 700W or so. Overall it was lots of hard work with the mediocre
condition. Most of Sunday was spent being distracted watching the NFL for most
of the day, waiting for conditions to improve. Worked some last minute mults
for the last 2 hours or so.... Did i I say how much work SSB is with 1/2 power
from a small station. Bring on CW! See you all in SS CW next month.
73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk
Adapt, Overcome, Succeed!!!
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