ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2020
Call: NJ8J
Operator(s): NJ8J
Station: NJ8J
Class: SO CW LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 7:12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 216 35
SSB:
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Total: 216 35 Total Score = 30,240
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Icom IC-7300
LDG AT-11MP Automatic Antenna tuner
10 Meter Half-Square
Logger: N1MM+
Well, Friday night started off with a bang! The band was packed (you'd have
thought it was 20M, not 10M) until about 0430Z and was pretty much closed by
0500Z. I even managed a couple of runs. No DX, other than VE. Managed to not
get started until about 2000Z Saturday, and it was obvious that the band wasn't
what it was Friday night. I got 2 Qs and could hear nothing else. Picked up
another 2, one each in the 0000Z and 0200Z hours.
Got in a couple of hours Sunday morning and the band was better, but not up to
what it was Friday night. Picked up a handful more in the afternoon until the
band folded up bout 1900Z.
This is the first time I've used the 10M Half-Square (well, since the top wire
is at a slant, it's really a Half-Parallelogram) very seriously since I got it
put up a couple of years ago. Seemed to work well. I certainly didn't feel
like a rabbit like I usually do with the poor bedraggled OCF doublet. I do
wonder about what kind of directivity it has. It basically lies on an east-west
line (well, slightly WNW-ESE), and I believe what lobes a half-square has are
broadside. I certainly had no problems working 1-land ; My MA Qs outnumber any
other section, with plenty of CT, MD, MN, NJ, NY, PA, and VA. With the
exception of MN (I kept wondering - why am I hearing so many MNs?), that's
pretty much straight north. What outside of NA DX I worked was Cayman Is. and
Argentina. I think that covers 'straight south'. I may have to think about
putting up another Half-Square, perpendicular to the current one.
I enjoyed using the new IC-7300 for this one. The scope does make a difference.
Friday afternoon I received an IC-PAC cable to connect the AT-11MP to the 7300.
Turns out the old AT-11MP *will* work with the 7300. I had been planning to
get an AT-200ProII, but this may hold me for awhile. Given that the DX-77T's
computer connection had been non-working for awhile, it's nice to have the
interface with N1MM+ back.
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