Saludos,
XE1MX sprint score op. XE1/AA6RX
20 85
40 102
80 6
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193 X 35 = 6755
This was a true last minute effort. I took my computer and TS-440 over to my
buddy Marcos' house around 3pm. We threw up a 40 MTR dipole and put coax on
his brand new TH-2 at 10 feet off the roof. Then I tried to make it work. No
luck. So my entry is a 100w/40MTR dipole effort. If I had taken some
time
to reaquaint myself with Tree's software I think I could have broken 200 Qs.
But I really suffered in the mult dept. Ark was the only state I can recall
hearing and not working.
About the beam...I did a check with KM9P and the dipole was better
than the beam by a factor of 2! What was wrong? In the heat of the moment
I misread the coax tags and was testing not the TH-2, but a 5 el monobander
for 10 m that was lying on the roof. Hats off the the Kenwood antenna tuner
for loading it!!!
Look for us in the SSB Sprint. I hope to multi-op with Marcos so he
can get a feel for this toughie of contests.
73, David Hodge XE1/AA6RX
>From n7stu@thetech.com (Robert Brown) Mon Sep 13 06:27:06 1993
From: n7stu@thetech.com (Robert Brown) (Robert Brown)
Subject: Sept. ARRL VHF contest results
Message-ID: <VNVs0B1w165w@thetech.com>
ARRL VHF QSO PARTY 1993
Call: N7STU Location: San Jose, CA Grid CM97
Mode: SSB Category: Single Operator
BAND QSO QSO PTS GRIDS
50 0 0 0
144 21 21 6
222 0 0 0
432 26 52 9
903 0 0 0
1.2 0 0 0
2.3 0 0 0
3.4 0 0 0
5.7 0 0 0
10G 0 0 0
24G 0 0 0
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Totals 47 73 15 = 1,095
Equipment Description:
Yaesu FT-780R 430Mhz multi-mode, Mirage D1010, 10 el circular polarized
yagi.
Icom IC-24AT dual band HT, Mirage B1016, 10 el yagi.
Club Affiliation: NCCC
NOTES: This is my third VHF/UHF contest. Not a lot of activity and
disappointing propagation for this one. Missed some good stuff on 2M
since my
multi-mode was in the shop, I was forced to use FM only on 2M. Contacts
were
slow and far between (I made more contacts on 1296 FM during 6 hours on
field
day than I did on 2m during this whole contest) there was much more
activity in
June.
73, ROBERT (N7STU)
N7STU@THETECH.COM
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