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Subject: [SECC] CQWW-CW NN4F SOAB(A) HP
From: paul at nn4f.com (paul at nn4f.com)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:22:04 -0500
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: NN4F
Operator(s): NN4F
Station: NN4F

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Ridgeville, SC
Operating Time (hrs): 46

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
 160:  280    23       85
  80:  563    34      121
  40:  615    37      137
  20:  730    38      155
  15:  164    35       75
  10:   41    16       21
------------------------------
Total: 2393   183      594  Total Score = 5,330,997

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment: FTDX-9000D + HF2500DX, FT1000MP-MKV + HF2500DX, SDR-14 + Skimmer

Assisted: Packet + Skimmer

Antennas:
10m - 7-el @ 70ft
15m - 7-el @ 100ft
20m - 6/6 @ 85/100ft
40m - 3el @ 145ft
80m - Rotatable Dipole @ 140ft / Two Phased Shunt-Fed 150ft Towers
160m - 1/2 wave Dipole @ 65ft / Two Phased Shunt-Fed 150ft Towers
3 x 900ft Beverages
20-10 - TA63M @ 55ft for Searching



The Story:
Have you ever had one of those weekends where things start bad, like missing
the first two hours due to work commitments, then you get home get settled for
a semi serious effort, and you turn on the radio and the low bands sound great,
no noise, you can hear pretty much everything, all over EU, well it just got
better from there.....Skimmer worked like a dream, and my M/2 station was set
up for SO2R, utilizing the FT9k and a FT1K, the both worked flawlessly under
the control of N1MM, the amps idled at 1500w all day, no problems there... The
antennas turned when they were supposed to, just a great experience. 40/80/160
were surprisingly good here, as shown by the Q's

I soon noticed that my score was climbing nicely, and was about to call it a
night at 4am, get a few hours sleep, and return in the morning, well I did some
math and thought at this rate I can challenge the K4 AA record set by N4RJ(KM9P)
in '91 of 4,481,038 so that kept me in the chair and kept me going. Well here we
are 46 hours later and apart from a couple of quick breaks and coffee and food
from the wife, we have a score of 5,330,997. Hopefully the UBN's and Nil's
won't hurt me too much so we will see...

I had a great time, but boy do my ears ache and my head is spinning, and I can
still hear code with the radio OFF..

This was the First serious (SO2R) operation of the new station and antenna farm
here at NN4F, so watch out boys, we'll be around big time next year...

Till the next big one... de Paul - NN4F 73

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