CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: TX (EM00)
Operating Time (hrs): 41
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 68 18 42
80: 223 25 82
40: 385 34 102
20: 1043 34 116
15: 265 26 76
10: 5 3 3
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Total: 1989 140 421 Total Score = 2,985,081
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
I was fortunate to have had no visits from "Murphy" during the WRTC
qualifications. Guess things are catching up with me. I've had a problem with my
40 meter Moxon for some time - intermittent low sensitivity on receive. Was
pretty sure it was a poor connection somewhere in the transmission line that
would bridge when power was applied. Antenna is 500 feet from the shack with
relays and stubs in between. Basically had been through all the connections but
one - a hardline connector on the tower. It was well water proofed and had
avoided taking that off. A few days before the contest I finally did that. Sure
enough it was blackened inside from lightning damage. The second time I've had
that problem with an N connector. Cleaned it up as well as I could and it seemed
to fix the problem. Unfortunately after only an hour or so on 40 meters Friday
evening things went really bad - connector must have opened up as the SWR went
way up and the amp faulted. The high SWR proved to be intermittent but the low
receive sensitivity was now even worse. Not only that but my beverage was not
working properly (turned out to be a receiver problem). I quit trying to run.
Reduced the power to 500 watts and the high SWR quit occuring. Bottom line -
probably missed two or three hundred QSOs on 40 although did manage to get a
decent multiplier total.
Over all conditions were "OK" for this point in the sunspot cycle.
Marginal openings to Europe and JA on 15 but 20 was great. The new G0KSC yagis
that replaced my old 20 meter yagis worked very well - personal high for 20
meter QSOs for me. Europe was weak on 160 but managed to exceed my totals from
last year. Only DX signals on ten were a couple of LUs and CE3WW on Sunday
afternoon.
Hopefully I'll have my problems fixed by ARRL DX and Murphy will stay away!
Marv N5AW
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