ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: K0RF
Operator(s): K0RF
Station: K0RF
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: CO
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 43 34
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 43 34 Total Score = 4,386
Club:
Comments:
Not really in this contest. Just wanted to see what I could do on top band. Just
combed the band and worked mults I could hear. There is a kinda funny twist in
this one because between qsos, during the dry spells, I worked on an FM
transmitter that belongs to a friend of my daughter. Got it working on Saturday
before going to church so I borrowed the dummy load from my 160 4-square and set
the transmitter output at 135W to run on test.
After church, I got on the band and struggled through the night feeling very
weak and failing to complete QSOs with several loud guys including PI4DX, IR4M,
TO5A, E7A and others. Many that I did work were tough to get to. I couldn't
understand it because on Friday night I felt like I couldn't hear because
everything came right back no matter what the pile up was like or how weak they
were. Saturday night was just the opposite. After one of my middle-of-the-night
naps I came back out to the shack about 1100Z and thought I smelled transformer
so I made a tour around the shack and found that the FM transmitter was still
working FB but 10 hours of 100 plus watts had really heated up my dummy load.
All of a sudden I realized why everything had seemed funny the second night
compared to Friday.
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