ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K1XM
Operator(s): KT1D, K1EO, W1FJ, W1KM, K1XM, K3NA
Station: W1KM
Class: M/M HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 440 75
80: 1196 97
40: 1552 115
20: 1836 110
15: 348 82
10: 16 8
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Total: 5388 487 Total Score = 7,871,868
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
That was a fun contest. It might be even more fun with sunspots.
Stations:
160/10: Elecraft K3, Acom A2000
80: Elecraft K3, Acom A2000
40: Elecraft K3, Ameritron AL-1200
20: Elecraft K3, Ameritron Al-1500
15: Elecraft K3, Ten-Tec Titan III
Antennas:
160: 4-square
80: 4-square
40: 4-square, 3-el
20: 4/4/4, XM-520
15: 6/4/4, 4
10: 5/5/4.5
Operators:
160: W1KM, KT1D, K1EO
80: K1XM
40: K3NA, KT1D
20: W1FJ, K1EO
15: W1KM
10: The CQ machine
Between all of the operators we own enough K3s to use them for
all stations. We like them better than the Orions and so far
they are much more reliable.
And we had no amplifier failures this year.
We had a couple antenna failures, though - the 20 meter stack
went intermittent, the top 15 stopped working sometime on
Saturday, one rotor died, and the bottom 10 meter antenna had
a 1:1 SWR even though about half of the driven element was
missing. All of this was minor. We also had precipitation
static and noise Sunday and one of these days we'll locate
the rough oscillator that wanders around the low end of
80 (I suspect a plasma TV somewhere in the area).
The 20 meter stack of three modified 204BAs is not competitive
with other second-tier multi-multi stations. We're going to
try to replace it this year.
There quite a few multi-multi stations this year. A few
years ago there wasn't much serious competition among the
second-tier multi-multi stations but that is certainly
changing. It was fun to watch the live scoreboard and see
how we were doing against K1TTT (it was real close a the
beginning) and then between K1TTT and W2FU (they changed
positions at least six times).
See you all next year!
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