ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: NZ1U
Operator(s): NB1U W1UJ K1EBY NR1X KB1JQA KC1BGP KB1JDX
Station: KB1H
Class: M/M HP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 38
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 35 28
80: 132 61
40: 241 79
20: 181 83
15: 1098 121
10: 1314 110
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Total: 3001 482 Total Score = 4,314,864
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This operation was the spectrum of emotions for all of the crew.
The truly empty feelings of the missing captain, KB1H, to the euphoria of
welcoming a fresh new ham to the world of overnight contesting.
We have a fantastic team of friends local and abroad- We appreciate the
support, kind words- "Kick Butts" and "Hotel"s we heard
from you this weekend-
Here is the 1M point status report;
We are plugging away pretty good at the barn.
20m antennas have high SWR and all QSOs are made on the 160m Dipole through old
antenna tuner so far. We cannot use the 160m dipole with 15m and 10m.
10m and 15m working very well.
The Low bands were slow last night and all of the operators went to bed early
to save energy for the high band runs.
2M Point status report;
Tore it up on 10m and 15m.
N1WK found the fault in the feedline to the 20m tower, but 4' of snow etc...
makes repair difficult.
Just plucking multipliers with the 160m dipole on 20m.
3M Point status report;
We continue to be handicapped on 20m, but pulling mults out with the 160m
dipole- N1WK took a few trips out to the tower with repair attempts- the
challenge to reach the tower is significant with the amount of snow (and Kim
battling a cold!)
Rob, KC1BGP Joined us for the overnight and did very good by the end of the
evening with NB1U training.
KE1LI arrived precisely at 8am with the hot breakfast fixings.
3M Point status report;
Still plugging away.
KE1LI made a fantastic breakfast feeding the help!
KT1NG and KT1SS stopped in for support and tour of the station-
KB1JDX and KB1JQA sat and operated 15m tearing into the afternoon conditions of
the band in true Barnstormer fashion.
AA1CE Stopped in for a visit and assisted K1EBY with a troubleshoot of the
equipment that should be used to troubleshoot the 20m problem... (?)
We think Dick would have been proud of the effort.
Here is the 3830 post, unedited, from the 2014 ARRL SSB-
The Barnstormers Contest Group
Comments: [email] 2014-03-03 06:35:50
Well, I don't know how many years in a row we have put together an effort in
the
four major contests but every one has been fun.
SSB not our favorite mode but we give it our best. The core group has held
together for some 20+ years. Operators and workers
all have the same goal. Have fun and make points. Once again we decided on M/2
even though we had what I say is a small crew.
It's amazing the number of stations that compete in this category with less
operators than us but there are some really good
and well manned stations out there. Our crew this contest was KB1H, W1UJ,
NB1U,
K1EBY and N1WK. Kim, N1WK put in quite a few
hours on the overnight which was a big plus.
Crisis number one before the contest started - our coffee machine was not
working. W1UJ arrived an hour after the start and
determned that the last contest when we emptied the water reservoir we had
thrown away a crucial part. Jay went digging
in the snow and found what was missing. Ahhh! We might survive. Jay also
brought his K3 to replace a failed FT-1000. Failures
were not so bad. The biggest hurt was the vacumn relay in the HF Commander amp
went south. NB1U thought 15M was awful slow
to open but it turned out to be the faulty relay. Only few and weak signals!.
For the second contest in a row KB1H had serious seat time. Normally other
commitments and just keeping things rolling means
not much seat time.
One of the first DX contest was in 1984 and that started the string of
consectitive contests. After all these years so many
callsigns have become familiar. We thank all the stations for the QSOs and
especially the stations that helped when asked to
QSY to a second band. I am pretty sure we set a station record for achieving
the moves.
Lots of food. Everyone shows up with a crock pot prepared by the wives and
KB1H
XYL provided breakfast and a homemade turkey
rice soup. Needless to say the weather out here has been great
"soup" weather.
Thanks for all the QSOs and now to start planning what we need to work on for
next year!
73
Dick
Dick Pechie - KB1H
The Barnstormers Contest Group - NZ1U
www.qsl.net/KB1H
DXC.KB1H.COM 7300 DxSpider Node
DXC.KB1H.COM 7303 CW Skimmer
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