ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: W3HKK
Operator(s): W3HKK
Station: W3HKK
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: oh
Operating Time (hrs): 11.65
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 21 16
80: 59 42
40: 89 58
20: 92 56
15: 74 43
10: 3 3
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Total: 338 218 Total Score = 219,744
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Planned to work mostly s&p on 160, 80, 40, as my trusty TenTec Centurion
amp blew a fuse in the CQ160m contest a few weeks ago and is still in the
shop.
Conditions were decent on Night 1, but declined as the evening wore on.
That was made up for by surprisingly good propagation on 10-15-20 Sat
afternoon.
Sunday I slept a lot as well as honoring a promise to take the xyl to a
Broadway musical in the afternoon.
Rig: IC7600 (100w) ANTENNAS: 52 ft vertical leg, 1/4 wave inverted L's with
far end at 18 ft, plus 23x65' radials for 180/80; a pair of phased 40m ground
planes with bases at 8 ft and five qtr wave elevated radials; a pair of phased
ground planes for 20 and 15m with four elevated radials; and a simple GP for
10m.
Best bands were 20-40-15-80-10 in that order. Nice to work VP6EU Pitcairn
Island on 80!
160m produced just 15 countries, including EI7M, OM3GI and then CR3W. So
clearly, EU was quiet. Hawaii (KH7M, KH6LC) and KL7RA, helped, but no Asians.
and the rest were good sigs from Carribean and C.A stations.
The SAL-30 rx antenna was used exclusively to pull out the dx on 160-80-40m.
80m was an abundant source of dx, along with 40, 20 and 15m.
The 75 yr old motor wasn't as strong as in the past so I managed just 11.65 hrs
on the air, with very little "running" was done, since I was
barefoot. Still, the large number of open bands made it fun, and pretty much
a one day event for me this year.
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