ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: W4ZV
Operator(s): W4ZV
Station: W4ZV
Class: SOSB/160 HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 13
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 312 74
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 312 74 Total Score = 69,264
Club: Carolina DX Association
Comments:
Yes Virginia, this was North Carolina and not VY2ZM...sadly!
We had fair conditions but QRN from a large thunderstorm cell moving across the
southern US made for difficult copy on the weaker signals. Sometimes I had to
give up and move on so my apologies if you called and I was "deaf". We
fortunately had a slight break in the QRN Sunday morning which did allow a few
JAs and JD1BLY to make it through at sunrise.
This was my first real contest for the K3 after some shakedown issues in the
Stew Perry. I never heard any IMD products the entire weekend even though I
used it with the preamp on the first night to try to induce some. The 200 Hz
roofing filter came in handy a few times with non-stop callers in simplex
pileups...LT1F's was memorable. "W4?"...(pileup)..."W4Z?"...(pileup)...and so
on for ~10 minutes. :-) Other K3s worked were VP6DX, F5VJC and SM0MDG.
Thanks to all for the QSOs and especially for your patience as I struggled in
the QRN.
73, Bill W4ZV
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