ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: HI3/KC1XX
Operator(s): KC1XX
Station: HI3/KC1XX
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Cabarete
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 79 31
40: 66 32
20: 374 53
15: 209 38
10:
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Total: 728 154 Total Score = 336,336
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
At this location in Cabarete, Dominican Republic, I am renting an apartment to
go Kitesurfing. It is located right on the ocean in Cabarete beach on the north
coast of the country.
Unfortunately there are many tourists that complain about everything and they
also complained about my wire dipole into a palm tree. The Dominican people
don't care but the Americans, Canadians and many EUs do.
I had to remove the dipole on Thursday evening.
I still wanted to get on the air and have some fun so I started putting
together some bamboo. I ran a wire along the bamboo from my terrace into a palm
tree at night. I loaded it like a long wire with a total length of about 60'.
During daylight, I used a simple 20 m dipole that I cut shorter for 15. It was
on my third floor terrace.
I could not match anything on 160 and I did not try 10m at all.
During the day, the weather was perfect for Kitesurfing and I made the most of
it in the ocean. So I only operated 8 hours with the bamboo stick and wire.
I apologize to all the stations that I could not copy. The noise level here was
always between S5 and S6 because of bad grounds and air conditioning units
running.
Thank you for everyone that called. I will try to fabricate a stealth antenna
for SSB.
VY-73, KC1XX
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