North American QSO Party, CW
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: Single Op LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 8.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 5 4
80: 143 43
40: 137 34
20: 194 36
15: 108 26
10:
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Total: 587 143 Total Score = 83,941
Club:
Team:
Comments:
Gear:
* FT920
* N1MM Logger
* 3 el. tribander @ 50'
* 80M inverted-V at 60'
* pair of 40M delta loops pointed east
* 18AVT/WB ground-mounted vertical, 36 radials
* 160M Inverted-L (20' horizontal, 60' vertical, 50 horizontal) against
vertical's radial field
Couldn't hear much at all on 160 with the very bent Inverted-L (first 20' are
horizontal about 6 feet off the ground, then up 60' and across 50'. Terrible --
Qs down by 90 and mults down 21. Yikes. Made me quite non-competitive this
year.
Have to replace all my ropes in the trees after a couple of weeks of severe
windstorms here. They got beat to hell, and everything has sagged with no way
to tighten things up without fear of breaking what's left up there. Repair plan
is in place to make it all way better (higher, stronger) than ever, though.
80M was in great shape. Up by four mults there, though down by 3 Qs from last
year. Thought the droopy 80 inverted-V at 60' would be rotten but it played all
right.
40M delta loops just wouldn't play today. Used the ground-mounted vertical
almost exclusively, to good effect. Mults up by 3, and Qs up by 40+ there.
Still no hell, though.
20M was pretty good but still disappointing with Qs down by 60 or so, and mults
down by 12.
15M saw good prop, with Qs down 30 or so, but mults up by 2.
Overall score was down by 43,000 due to loss of 160M and 20M's poor showing.
Year-over-year stats:
Year Qs Mults Score
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2003: 412 147 60,564
2004: 206 62 12,772
2005: -- -- --
2006: 737 172 126,764
2007: 587 143 83,941
Preparing for the next big contests now. Have acquired the bits and pieces to
start phasing the currently unused 40M raised verticals for EU. The two
1/4-wave elements are 34' apart from N to S, 4 raised radials ea. Have
carefully measured (with RX noise bridge) a 3/4-wave line to go between the
feedpoints. Will feed the array from the south end for EU and hope for good
things.
Also will make the 40M pair of delta loops and (soon to be raised) 80M delta
loops switchable E-W. Canuck hams, run -- don't walk -- to Princess Auto for
Omron 12v SPDT relays ($0.51 each, if you can believe that) and 4-wire
telephone cable for control lines ($1.49/50' -- another bargain). Spent $18 and
got everything I need to relay-control half a dozen wire antenna elements,
including a 12vdc power supply and switches.
Gotta get busy to be ready for UK DX RTTY next weekend and CQ 160 after that.
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