CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K8AZ
Operator(s): K8AZ, K8BL, K8MR, N8TR, W8CAR, W8KIC, WB8K, WT8C
Station: K8AZ
Class: M/S HP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 27 11 25
80: 96 21 74
40: 214 29 99
20: 485 37 149
15: 604 35 140
10: 1463 34 151
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Total: 2889 167 638 Total Score = 6,555,000
Club: North Coast Contesters
Comments:
Interesting contest. Got off to a clunky start, with the stack switch on the
main 20m antennas failing Friday night. We used the 20m mult antennas for much
of the contest, with reasonable success. Got the switch replaced Saturday
afternoon, but that tower use prohibited use of main 15m antennas (on the same
tower with the main 20s) much of the afternoon, since I didn't want to be on the
tower next to an antenna pumping out 1.5KW when I changed out the 20m relay box.
(We do get more safety conscious as we get older, don't we?) The failure of
the 20m switch also caused the failure of a 20m transmit filter, and it took
until 4am Sunday to get that figured out, with the net result being that we lost
use of the main 20m antennas for 3/4 of the contest, and also lost the main 15m
antennas for about 4 hours.
The excuses aside, we had lots of fun and look forward to the CW weekend.
Congrats to N4PW (who showed up on 3830 with a very impressive score total) and
to the other m/s crews.
73,
Tom K8AZ
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