ARRL TEN METER CONTEST 1998
Call: KH8/N5OLS Country: American Samoa (090)
Category: Single Operator High Power
MODE QSO QSO PTS STATES COUNTRIES
CW 1021 4096 61 47
SSB 1606 3212 62 50
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Totals 2627 7308 123 97 = 1,607,760
(Score should be a little higher if I could figure out how to
make CT score my maritime mobile.)
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
Equipment Description: Mosley Pro 67C @ 72'
Dipole @ 45'
Kenwood TS-950SDX @ 2'
Alpha 91B @ 2'
Club Affiliation: North Texas Contest Club
Continent Statistics
KH8/N5OLS Single Operator High Power 13 Dec 1998 2359z
10 percent
CW
North America 778 29.5
South America 23 0.9
Europe 5 0.2
Asia 187 7.1
Africa 2 0.1
Oceania 28 1.1
SSB
North America 1113 42.3
South America 45 1.7
Europe 5 0.2
Asia 356 13.5
Africa 0 0.0
Oceania 91 3.5
Gee, what a change from last year. After a couple of
years with no propagation on 10 to the states, it all
switched around in one weekend. All states on both CW
and SSB, compared with almost none in years past. It
was only possible due to some really nice guys in some
rare states QSY'ing to CW or SSB for me, though. The
tough VE provinces were in there too, thanks, fellows.
Like everybody else, I didn't hear VO2 (no surprise)
or VY1 (a bit of a surprise). You've spoiled us, J.!
Country count was way down. I had absolutely no polar
propagation, and the only Europeans that I worked were
in zone 16, European Russia and the Ukraine. I did
hear a loud IK4 station in both my evening and early
morning, skewed path, but my Alpha 91 wasn't big enough
to make him hesitate. No other zone 15 or 14 guys were
copied, even though I could hear the ZL's and VK's and
FK8 working them. Wednesday and Thursday I could copy
tons of eastern Europeans on the long path, and they
were there on Monday after the contest, of course, but
nil during the weekend. I sent up my prayers to the
propagation gods for a short opening to Europe each
night, but I guess they either got absorbed by the "D"
layer or were blocked by the aurora. I'll take the
fantastic North America openings over last year's short
European openings, though, if I have to make a choice...
Am I in the new Super Check Partial as KH8/NH0LS, or what?
Sorry to my in-laws for not taking them to the airport,
and my new neighbor, who came over Saturday evening to
report that I was messing up her (cheap, unshielded,
WalMart) sound system. I was quick to shut the amplifier
off---NOT!!!
Great contest, and next year should be even better!
See ya, 73
Don KH8/N5OLS
n5ols@samoatelco.com
QSL via N5JA
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