CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: N8UM
Operator(s): N8UM
Station: N8UM
Class: SOAB(TS) HP
QTH: TN
Operating Time (hrs): 27
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 151
40: 425
20: 282
15: 163
10: 0
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Total: 1021 Prefixes = 486 Total Score = 1,307,826
Club: Tennessee Contest Group
Comments:
I had planned a SO 40 effort, but the TCG gathering at the K0EJ super station
inspired me to add some verticals to the back yard. I got the 15m 4 square
erected a week before the test and finished the 20 meter 4 square in 90 degree
heat just before the start of the test on Friday night. I made a lucky choice
to stay on 40 and 80 on Friday night and worked plenty of 6 pointers. I went
to bed the first night about 2:30 am. That was a good choice as the bands were
punk on Saturday morning so I finished the 20 meter antenna. Played on Saturday
afternoon and napped some. I went to bed at 11:30pm Saturday night since 40
had really weak and fluttery signals. Sunday morn and the rest of the test had
ever improving conditions and the 20 meter 4 square seems to have a respectable
pattern and gets out well.
For those who are wondering, I donâ??t have any towers but I do have 50,000
feet of radials on the hillside from a previous 80 meter 4 square. Yes fifty
thousand feet, not five thousand feetâ?¦
I did not operate assisted as the K3 had the infamous IO3 Error Code from a
thunderstorm just two days before the big Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee
tornado outbreak. I need an antenna decoder switch since I probably spent an
hour or two just unscrewing and changing antennasâ?¦
My two artificial knees are fully functional and the titanium did not seem to
suffer any rf detuning from the radioâ?¦ For those of you that snow ski, I did
14 runs before lunch at Vail in early February so I guess the knees are as good
as they are going to get!
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