ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ/9
Station: N4TZ/9
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 41
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 27 21
80: 84 52
40: 135 67
20: 307 85
15: 275 79
10: 147 46
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Total: 975 350 Total Score = 1,018,500
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
Terrible low band conditions - horrible QRN first night, hard
to hear anything on low bands even with beverages; second night,
I could hear ok, but activity down there was lacking. After
the first night's QRN went away, a broadband hash appeared
from the Southwest, which is still there as of this righting.
The nearest electrical line in that direction is about a half
mile away; it is S7-S9 up through 15 meters.
The contest started off ok, worked more JAs on 15 the first
hour than in the remaining 47 hours, so the high bands ended
up pretty punk here, too. Definitely worse conditions than
last March. Not one response to any of my CQs.
Guess we missed the peak of the sunspot cycle :^(
I spend most of the contest overcoming a series of problems
related to my voice keyer. My physical voice has been a
problem since last September, so I have been relying upon
the DVP messages I recorded last year. But, this 3 minutes
into this contest I started having problems with my system.
I spent most of the contest trying to isolate and identify
the underlying problem so that I could fix it. At this
time, I'm still uncertain of the root cause, but I have
noted that TR4W and the computer continue to send the
audio message but the Winkey PTT seems to drop out it you
try to send a second message too quickly after the first
message. If you hit the F key before the first message
is complete, the PTT drops out and stays out until all
the messages are sent! The PTT from the Winkey is used
to transfer the audio input to the SO2R box from the mike
to the computer soundcard.
At least the problems with the hardware took away some of
the boredom the the poor conditions would have otherwise
caused.
Terry N4TZ
2012 ARRL-DX-SSB N4TZ
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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NA calls = 15 25 24 42 54 39 199
SA calls = 4 10 15 54 49 86 218
Euro calls = 6 40 85 191 135 11 468
African calls = 1 2 1 6 5 4 19
Asian calls = 0 1 2 11 2 0 16
Japan calls = 0 2 4 1 23 0 30
Ocean calls = 1 4 4 2 7 7 25
Total calls = 27 84 135 307 275 147 975
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