CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K5NA
Operator(s): K5NA,K5DU,KI5DR,K2UR,N5ZC,KD5SQF
Station: K5NA
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Austin, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 45 10 23
80: 123 18 45
40: 220 30 85
20: 606 38 138
15: 1140 37 143
10: 883 34 141
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Total: 3017 167 575 Total Score = 5,481,896
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
First Multi-Two effort! We had an informal brainstorm session to determine how
to track band-changes by rig, and had settled into the Clothespin method until
we found the function in Writelog that displays it for us (very cool!).
The above score is directly off the Writelog screen, and will likely change a
little since Dupes are included in the QSO totals and the most recent .CTY file
was not used, so a couple of stations were not properly counted as mults.
What a wild weekend! The Cat5 hurricane passed us right by - rained
continuously - fortunately no lightning! We only had to push one vehicle out of
the mud. The 15m antenna stack really played well this weekend, although the
bottom rotor seemed to be binding CCW past 320 and CW past 120, so it's range
was limited. 20m got a visit from Murphy - the relay kept sticking inside the
amp, and often tapping the PTT multiple times would be the only way to force it
unstuck! In addition, the High 20 rotor cable also seemed to be affected by all
the rain - often it was reading 330 when it fact the beam was pointing at 180!
Really made 20m sound funny. Several times we would stand on the deck in the
rain while shining a flashlight into the darkness and recalibrate the control
box based on our manual observation.
40m was not immune either. The bottom yagi was adversely affected by wind, and
it spun around in it's side-mount bracket and was rubbing against the side of
the tower. Our hearts also skipped a beat when 15 minutes before the contest
began the power went out - suddenly it was dark and quiet, and the rain was
pelting the roof outside. Fortunately, that was the only occurrence, and some
of the computers were spared due to a UPS.
Conditions seemed murky on Saturday, but picked up Sunday. 10m turned out to be
fantastic! 15m worked well, but 20m seemed to have fewer activity (maybe
because we were listening at 180 degrees???) Lower bands were extremely noisy,
beverages helped. We got beat repeatedly by W5KFT, AA5NT and K5NZ in the
pileups. Great job guys!
Many thanks to the wonderful hospitality at the K5NA homestead. See y'all on CW
weekend!
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