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N2RM ARRL CW M/2

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Subject: N2RM ARRL CW M/2
From: GOLOMB@LAKEHURST.NAVY.MIL (JOHN GOLOMB)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:18:42 -0500
N2RM ARRL CW M/2

160   177   56
 80   768   89
 40   915   94
 20  1650  113
 15   257   82
 10     9    5
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tot  3776  439=4.97 meg

operators: N2RM, N2BCC, KZ2S, N2NT, W2RQ, KA2AEV, KE2PF, W2GMA 

We had plans to enter our normal category of multi-multi in this
contest, but a big snow storm on friday changed those plans.  When I
arrived at RM's around 1:30 friday afternoon (1830Z), only N2BCC and
N2RM were there.  Most of our operators have a 2-3 hour "commute" to
RM's.  With the snow, this was more like 4-5 hours.  By 2200Z N2NT
and W2RQ had also arrived.  We had no idea when (if) the rest of our
crew and equipment would arrive, so we decided to change to M/2
instead of killing ourselves trying to do a serious M/M.  We wouldn't
have scored much more with a full blown M/M with these conditions.

Here are a few highlights from each band:

160:  Good Europe both nights.  Think it was better the second night.
 The phased beverages at N2RM's in combination with Bob's extremely
quiet location really seem to pull in the signals.  Note that 160 had
the best rate of all bands during the 04Z hour on night 2.  Did the
MUF actually drop below 3.5 MHz to EU at this time ?

80:  Conditions were fantastic to Europe.  Again, we seemed to be
hearing extremely well.  We worked twice as many European Russian
stations (UA in the .CNT file) here than on 40!  I got to use Warren,
N2BCC's, OMNI VI on this band a bit.  This is some CW radio.  I've
added it to my list of rigs to consider if I ever replace my 765.

40:  Best during the late afternoon and early evening.  Where was EU
at their sunrise?  During day 1, the EU big guns came back in at
about S1 around 08Z.  On day 2, EU never came back after 01Z.  Spent
most of the second night on 80/160.

20:  Well this was the big band.  RM, RQ and PF took turns running
the rate both mornings.  JH5FXP's signal off of Antarctica on the
second night was amazing.  He was basically the only thing coming
through from 03-07Z.  What is this guy running?

15:  Bad during the first day.  Not as bad on day 2, but still bad. 
Interesting that 15 was better the second day even though 20 opened
later to EU the second day.

10:  9 contacts ??

RM's station is definitely not automated.  Band changes consisted of
removing coax connectors from the back of amps, changing any band
pass filters installed, and then connecting up the coax for the "new"
band.  

In a small oversight, RM forgot to call the port-o-san man to deliver
our temporary facilities for the weekend.  This resulted in several
of our operators making unexpected emergency trips to McDonalds to
use the McBathroom.

For the N2RM crew,

John KZ2S 
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BREAKDOWN QSO/mults  N2RM  ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST  Multi Two

HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT 
CUM TOT  

   0    .....    79/27   127/36    .....    .....    .....   206/63 
206/63 
   1     1/1     57/11    70/7       .        .        .     128/19 
334/82 
   2    11/9     25/1     30/11      .        .        .      66/21 
400/103
   3     2/2     40/6     43/7       .        .        .      85/15 
485/118
   4    11/2     51/7     30/6       .        .        .      92/15 
577/133
   5    30/11    53/4      1/1       .        .        .      84/16 
661/149
   6    11/6     32/1      2/2       .        .        .      45/9  
706/158
   7     8/4     20/3      8/2       .        .        .      36/9  
742/167
   8     1/1      9/6     29/2     .....    .....    .....    39/9  
781/176
   9      .       1/0     35/2     13/9       .        .      49/11 
830/187      10      .       1/1      6/1     22/8       .        .  
   29/10  859/197
  11      .       2/1      3/3     41/12      .        .      46/16 
905/213
  12      .       3/1       .     144/14     3/3       .     150/18
1055/231
  13      .        .        .     146/10    17/13      .     163/23
1218/254
  14      .        .        .     159/5     19/9       .     178/14
1396/268
  15      .        .        .     129/3     19/7       .     148/10
1544/278
  16    .....    .....    .....   113/6     13/4     .....   126/10
1670/288
  17      .        .        .      87/2      6/4       .      93/6 
1763/294
  18      .        .        .      60/2      2/1      7/4     69/7 
1832/301
  19      .        .      12/1     26/4      8/3       .      46/8 
1878/309
  20      .        .      62/0      8/6       .        .      70/6 
1948/315
  21      .        .      90/3     20/3       .       1/1    111/7 
2059/322
  22      .      19/0     85/2     19/3       .        .     123/5 
2182/327
  23      .      68/3     21/1     22/1       .        .     111/5 
2293/332
   0     4/1     28/1     23/0     .....    .....    .....    55/2 
2348/334
   1    16/5     24/1       .       3/3       .        .      43/9 
2391/343
   2     4/2     25/3      1/1      3/1       .        .      33/7 
2424/350
   3    11/5     18/1       .       1/1       .        .      30/7 
2454/357
   4    24/4     10/2      4/1      2/0       .        .      40/7 
2494/364
   5    25/1     27/0       .        .        .        .      52/1 
2546/365
   6    10/0     46/0      1/0       .        .        .      57/0 
2603/365
   7     5/0     17/0       .        .        .        .      22/0 
2625/365
   8     1/1      3/1      4/0     .....    .....    .....     8/2 
2633/367
   9      .       3/2      4/0       .        .        .       7/2 
2640/369
  10      .       3/1     11/0       .        .        .      14/1 
2654/370
  11      .       3/1      4/2     47/0       .        .      54/3 
2708/373
  12      .        .       9/0    104/3       .        .     113/3 
2821/376
  13      .        .       1/0     92/3      5/3       .      98/6 
2919/382
  14      .        .        .      72/1     15/7       .      87/8 
3006/390
  15      .        .        .      61/0     49/10      .     110/10
3116/400
  16    .....    .....    .....    78/4     56/3     .....   134/7 
3250/407
  17      .        .        .      53/1     15/0       .      68/1 
3318/408
  18      .        .        .      52/4     10/4       .      62/8 
3380/416
  19      .        .      18/0     25/0     11/6      1/0     55/6 
3435/422
  20      .        .      66/0      4/1      3/1       .      73/2 
3508/424
  21      .        .      66/1      9/0      5/3       .      80/4 
3588/428
  22     1/1     55/2     14/0     35/3      1/1       .     106/7 
3694/435
  23     1/0     46/2     35/2       .        .        .      82/4 
3776/439
DAY1    75/36   460/72   654/87  1009/88    87/44     8/5     .....
2293/332
DAY2   102/20   308/17   261/7    641/25   170/38     1/0       .  
1483/107
TOT    177/56   768/89   915/94 1650/113   257/82     9/5       .  
3776/439



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