Hi to all!
After some sleeping, now I can write my comments! I'm very
happy with my results. This is my personal best ever, over
800 QSOs more than last year. Conditions were fine in all
bands, specially a surprise in 10m. Not having an antenna
for 160m really hurts. I must have one for next year!
The week started with some school work so I let the antenna
work to Thursday & Friday. Norberto, KP4WK, bought a strange
tri band beam in a local Ham Fest ( later He discovered the
traps were from a TA-33, only the traps! ). I asked him to
install it for the ARRL DX CW and Thursday we did the work.
SWR was ok, <1.5:1 in 10, 15,20m and on the air tests confirmed
the antenna was working ok. For the first time everything was
ready long before the contest, at 2AM local on Thursday! After
finishing all friday classes went to the station and talked with
some guys and noticed excellent condx on 10m.
Friday, I started running on 40m with a fine 150/hr rate. Spent
all the night in 40 and 80. 80 seemed like 20m, condx were
great and the QRN was low (s5, normally s9). By the way, I
heard KH6RS about sunrise, and thats a DX! The mornings were very
boring with low rates due to S&P. W/VE stations in the morning
were working the loud Europeans and there was no empty freq for a
low power! I stayed in the air for the first 32 hours and then
I felt so tired that went for some sleep. The high bands were
excellent. I made more QSOs this weekend in 10m than in the
ARRL 10m contest weekend! Finally I finished the contest in a
great way, with a big Pile on 20m!
Thanks all for the contacts ( I worked a lot of "reflectorians" ).
See you all in our M/S (low power :-( ) in the Phone weekend. 73's
Eric M. Guzman Colon, KP4TK/KP4VA
ericm@rmece02.upr.clu.edu
>From dz@VOA.GOV (Dick Zwirko) Wed Feb 22 00:50:05 1995
From: dz@VOA.GOV (Dick Zwirko) (Dick Zwirko)
Subject: K1HTV/3 ARRL CW DX, SO/LP (160M) score
Message-ID: <9502220050.AA01669@voa3.VOA.GOV>
K1HTV/3 - ARRL CW DX CONTEST SCORE
Single Band (160M) Low Power, Single Op (No Packet)
Band QSOs QSO PTS COUNTRIES FINAL SCORE
160M 69 207 32 6,624
TX - TS850S/AT (100 watts)
RX - " (500Hz/250Hz filters)
TX Antenna = 95' shunt fed 78' tower + 17' mast & 15,10,6,2M,70cM yagi tophat
15 short (1/8 wavelength) radials
RX Antenna = Same (No Beverages......no room :-)
160M QRN level was very low for most of the contest. Conditions were,
in my estimation, fairly good but far from the best this season.
Worked almost all countries heard on CW, missing ZS, VK, OM, UA and
PA0 (booo). Heard FB 160M SSB sigs from VK6AS and XQ8ABF but they weren't
too interested in working CW.
73 de Rich - K1HTV - Glenn Dale, MD
Richard Zwirko (VOA/BBOM) - K1HTV Voice of America
Wilbur J. Cohen Building, Room 2165 Broadcast Operations
Washington, DC 20547 Technical Support Division
dz@.VOA.GOV +1 202-619-1314
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