ARRL September VHF Contest - 2020
Call: K3DNE
Operator(s): K3DNE
Station: K3DNE
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: SC
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 78 37
2: 39 24
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 117 61 Total Score = 7,137
Club: Swamp Fox Contest Group
Comments:
What a difference compared to the June VHF contest! Yikes, that was tough. No
openings that I found. Only 3 QSO's on SSB. 1 on CW. I really believe vhf+
contests need a rule change to incentivize the use of ssb and cw.
All the rest was digital. FT8 is slow but that's where the activity was. MSK144
meteor scatter was much more exciting (on 6m, no 2m MSK144 contacts made). I
must have zapped the gamma match input connector on my ancient 3 element 6m beam
when running QRO on Sunday evening because swr went from 1.2:1 to 3.5:1.
Fortunately the Quadra amp detects that and reduced power. I stopped operating
on 6m after that happened and focused on 2m. The IC746 was only getting 50w
output on 2m so I dug out an old solid state TE Systems amp (160w) and used that
for the last 4 hours on 2m. It didn't make much of a difference, things were
just slow.
Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd Pt/Q
50 FT8 63 63 25 1.0
50 MSK1 14 14 12 1.0
50 USB 1 1 0 1.0
144 CW 1 1 1 1.0
144 FT8 36 36 23 1.0
144 USB 2 2 0 1.0
Total 117 117 61 1.0
Score: 7,137
1 Mult = 1.9 Q's
73,
Ed K3DNE
6m: IC746 + Yaesu Quadra amp, modified Cushcraft 3 element yagi at 27ft.
2m: IC746 + TE Systemes amp 160w, M squared 7 element yagi at 24ft.
Both with long (220ft) runs of 1/2" heliax.
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