CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: N1IK
Operator(s): N1IK
Station: N1IK
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Windham, NH
Operating Time (hrs): 31
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 15 7 10
80: 99 15 54
40: 147 14 64
20: 413 30 116
15: 395 26 109
10: 262 25 94
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Total: 1331 117 447 Total Score = 2,113,308
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
What an AWESOME time! Confirms my love of any kind of contesting. Amazing!
I worked like a maniacal maniac to prepare the station for the contest. Five
days before the contest, I literally had no station. Nothing was set-up and the
antenna situation, unchanged from last season, was a mess. (The only antenna
that was up was the R8.)
During these five days I put my whole station together and did a lot of antenna
work:
1) Installed a SteppIR 4 element antenna on a roof tower at roughly 60?.
2) Built a 40M dipole and got it up about 50?
3) Repositioned and the 80M inverted V dipole and got it and the ends up 10 more
feet.
4) Built a 3/8?s wave vertical for 80M from ON4UN?s book, tuned it and got it
working.
Then I assembled the station. I made the FT1000MP MARKV Field the station
radio, and the IC-756PROII is now the backup.
A note on the SteppIR: The 180 flip is amazingly handy. For a wile I was
working JA?s and looking for JA?s, but was able collect new South America
stations as they came up by flipping the SteppIR in two seconds to make a Q and
then flipping back in two seconds.
Also, having the R8 on hand for an always-available omni antenna was very
handy.
Highlights:
Blowing through the massive pileup to work V55V on the 2nd shot. Yeah baby! All
the cool DX worked with ease.
Lowpoints:
Didn?t have anywhere near as much fun on 80M as I thought I would.
Station:
FT1000MP MARKV Field
Alpha 87A
Antennas:
SteppIR 4 element
40M dipole
80M inverted V dipole
80M 3/8?s vertical
160M inverted L (or is Pinus Shuntfedus)
Cushcraft R8
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