CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: AK0M
Operator(s): AK0M
Station: AK0M
Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: IA
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 11 8 11
40: 27 11 23
20: 34 12 19
15: 54 19 36
10: 1 1 1
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Total: 127 51 90 Total Score = 47,376
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
Antenna problems were discovered on Friday that were unfixable until Saturday. I
ended up replacing the existing wire vertical with an 85ft mostly-vertical wire
into the trees, with traps for 20m and 40m to make it 3/8-wave on those bands.
It modeled well on all bands and indeed performed pretty well, better than a
40/20/15 EFHWA put up in a better location, but the remote tuner wouldn't load
it on 160. Still was slow going with 100w, all S&P, I didn't think the bands
were anything special. Signals on 15 jumped way up mid-afternoon Sunday for
about 20 minutes but during that time I could hardly get any answers other than
OH/SM strong polar Q's. It was fun to finally get a little on-the-air time. My
project this week will be to get a base loading coil built for 160m next
weekend. Other very notable event here, I put a new Flex 6600 into the shack on
Saturday, replacing the 6400 I had!
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