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Subject: [3830] N5XU IARU M/S
From: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:45:09 -0500
           1999 IARU SUMMARY SHEET

    Contest Dates : 10-Jul-99, 11-Jul-99
    Callsign Used : N5XU
        Operators : KA5WSS, KM5FA, N3TNN
         Category : Multi-Single
 Default Exchange : 59 07
             Name : University of Texas Amateur Radio Club
                    http://www.utexas.edu/students/utarc/
          Country : United States of America
          Section : South Texas
        Team/Club : Central Texas DX and Contest Club


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points  HQ Stations Zones
  _______________________________________________________
 
  160CW        7           7          7       0         1
   80SSB      10          10         20       1         3
   40CW       23          23         51       1         0
   40SSB      16          16         38       3         7
   20CW       31          31         87       2         1
   20SSB     477         475       1781      16        38
   15CW        9           9         23       0         0
   15SSB     311         310       1072      14        29
   10CW        8           8         12       0         0
   10SSB      19          19         61       2         8
  _______________________________________________________
 
 Totals      911         908       3152      39        87


    Claimed Score = 397,152 points.

Station:
   http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/n5xu/
   Kenwood TS-830S
   Heathkit SB-220
   Force-12 C-4 @ 100'
   40MSSB wire dipole fixed NS @ 60'
   80M wire dipole fixed NS @ 60'
   350' wire on 160 @ 60'
   TR Log 6.42
   Super CMOS Keyer II


This was a "casual" contest effort at N5XU.  

We had terrible line noise all weekend.  It was really bad on 15 meters, and
only a little less so on 20 and 10.  We get all sorts of noise on the bands 
at N5XU, but this was the first time I've heard line noise.  Consequently,
we spent a lot more time on 20, where we could hear a little better.
I'd never actually heard line noise myself until this past June VHF 
QSO Party out at W5KFT.  This noise was almost an order of magnitude louder.
With the club station located less than 300 feet from an electric power 
and distribution station that serves 150,000, and less than 200 feet from
the construction site for a new five story building, I'm sure this was bound
to happen sooner or later.

Most of the equipment worked pretty well, except some part of the DVK
wiring needs to be fixed - it was putting hum on the audio.  So, we went 
without the headset mic, and did the contest with a desk mic and no DVK.
I also had trouble getting the long wire to load up on 160 that evening,
maybe because I was tired, maybe because of the rain.  I think we were 
radiating maybe 20 watts on that band.

Sometime around noon or so, we worked W1ET, the club station at my 
undergraduate alma mater, which was the first time I've ever heard W1ET on
the air from Texas.

N3TNN joined us in the evening, and made her first DX contacts, with stations 
in France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, England, Brazil, Yugoslavia, Germany, 
Italy, and Kaliningrad!

I made a few CW QSOs, trying my best to go 18 or 19 wpm, which is still a 
little bit faster than my "comfort zone."

It was pretty fun despite the line noise.  We also crushed the club's previous
best score for this contest.



      Continent List  1999 N5XU IARU HF Championship - Continents

                   160    80    40    20    15    10    30    17    12    ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    ---
  USA calls   =      7     9    29   206   164    15     0     0     0    430
  VE calls    =      0     0     2    23     9     0     0     0     0     34
  N.A. calls  =      0     1     1    18    12     2     0     0     0     34
  S.A. calls  =      0     0     2    12    20     8     0     0     0     42
  Euro calls  =      0     0     5    77    73     0     0     0     0    155
  Afrc calls  =      0     0     0     8     7     0     0     0     0     15
  Asia calls  =      0     0     0    12     8     0     0     0     0     20
  JA calls    =      0     0     0   107    19     0     0     0     0    126
  Ocen calls  =      0     0     0    43     7     2     0     0     0     52

  Total calls =      7    10    39   506   319    27     0     0     0    908




                   1999 N5XU IARU HF Championship - Rate Sheet


  HOUR  160CW    80SSB   40CW    40SSB   20CW    20SSB   15CW    15SSB   10CW   
 10SSB   TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  
------   -----   -----
   12       0       0       0       0       0      83       0       0       0   
    0      83      83
   13       0       0       0       0       0      20       0      19       0   
    0      39     122
   14       0       0       0       0       0      23       0      17       0   
    0      40     162
   15       0       0       0       0       0       0       5      15       0   
    9      29     191
   16       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      60       0   
    0      60     251
   17       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      70       0   
    0      70     321
   18       0       0       0       0       0      10       0      44       0   
    0      54     375
   19       0       0       0       0      14      33       0       0       0   
    0      47     422
   20       0       0       0       0       2       0       4      23       5   
    0      34     456
   21       0       0       0       0      15      42       0       0       0   
    0      57     513
   22       0       0       0       0       0       7       0      24       3   
    6      40     553
   23       0       0       0       0       0      33       0       3       0   
    0      36     589

    0       0       0       0       0       0       3       0      20       0   
    4      27     616
    1       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      15       0   
    0      15     631
    2       0       0       0       4       0       0       0       0       0   
    0       4     635
    3       0       9       0       0       0       6       0       0       0   
    0      15     650
    4       4       1      10       6       0       0       0       0       0   
    0      21     671
    5       0       0       4       5       0       0       0       0       0   
    0       9     680
    6       0       0       9       1       0       2       0       0       0   
    0      12     692
    7       3       0       0       0       0      44       0       0       0   
    0      47     739
    8       0       0       0       0       0      42       0       0       0   
    0      42     781
    9       0       0       0       0       0      46       0       0       0   
    0      46     827
   10       0       0       0       0       0      42       0       0       0   
    0      42     869
   11       0       0       0       0       0      39       0       0       0   
    0      39     908

  TOTAL     7      10      23      16      31     475       9     310       8   
   19  

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Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker@cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin                  Amateur Radio Callsign: KM5FA
Department of the Computer Sciences         President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124               Maintainer of the Linux Laptop Home Page
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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