N2RM ARRL CW M/2
160 177 56
80 768 89
40 915 94
20 1650 113
15 257 82
10 9 5
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tot 3776 439=4.97 meg
operators: N2RM, N2BCC, KZ2S, N2NT, W2RQ, KA2AEV, KE2PF, W2GMA
We had plans to enter our normal category of multi-multi in this
contest, but a big snow storm on friday changed those plans. When I
arrived at RM's around 1:30 friday afternoon (1830Z), only N2BCC and
N2RM were there. Most of our operators have a 2-3 hour "commute" to
RM's. With the snow, this was more like 4-5 hours. By 2200Z N2NT
and W2RQ had also arrived. We had no idea when (if) the rest of our
crew and equipment would arrive, so we decided to change to M/2
instead of killing ourselves trying to do a serious M/M. We wouldn't
have scored much more with a full blown M/M with these conditions.
Here are a few highlights from each band:
160: Good Europe both nights. Think it was better the second night.
The phased beverages at N2RM's in combination with Bob's extremely
quiet location really seem to pull in the signals. Note that 160 had
the best rate of all bands during the 04Z hour on night 2. Did the
MUF actually drop below 3.5 MHz to EU at this time ?
80: Conditions were fantastic to Europe. Again, we seemed to be
hearing extremely well. We worked twice as many European Russian
stations (UA in the .CNT file) here than on 40! I got to use Warren,
N2BCC's, OMNI VI on this band a bit. This is some CW radio. I've
added it to my list of rigs to consider if I ever replace my 765.
40: Best during the late afternoon and early evening. Where was EU
at their sunrise? During day 1, the EU big guns came back in at
about S1 around 08Z. On day 2, EU never came back after 01Z. Spent
most of the second night on 80/160.
20: Well this was the big band. RM, RQ and PF took turns running
the rate both mornings. JH5FXP's signal off of Antarctica on the
second night was amazing. He was basically the only thing coming
through from 03-07Z. What is this guy running?
15: Bad during the first day. Not as bad on day 2, but still bad.
Interesting that 15 was better the second day even though 20 opened
later to EU the second day.
10: 9 contacts ??
RM's station is definitely not automated. Band changes consisted of
removing coax connectors from the back of amps, changing any band
pass filters installed, and then connecting up the coax for the "new"
band.
In a small oversight, RM forgot to call the port-o-san man to deliver
our temporary facilities for the weekend. This resulted in several
of our operators making unexpected emergency trips to McDonalds to
use the McBathroom.
For the N2RM crew,
John KZ2S
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BREAKDOWN QSO/mults N2RM ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Two
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT
CUM TOT
0 ..... 79/27 127/36 ..... ..... ..... 206/63
206/63
1 1/1 57/11 70/7 . . . 128/19
334/82
2 11/9 25/1 30/11 . . . 66/21
400/103
3 2/2 40/6 43/7 . . . 85/15
485/118
4 11/2 51/7 30/6 . . . 92/15
577/133
5 30/11 53/4 1/1 . . . 84/16
661/149
6 11/6 32/1 2/2 . . . 45/9
706/158
7 8/4 20/3 8/2 . . . 36/9
742/167
8 1/1 9/6 29/2 ..... ..... ..... 39/9
781/176
9 . 1/0 35/2 13/9 . . 49/11
830/187 10 . 1/1 6/1 22/8 . .
29/10 859/197
11 . 2/1 3/3 41/12 . . 46/16
905/213
12 . 3/1 . 144/14 3/3 . 150/18
1055/231
13 . . . 146/10 17/13 . 163/23
1218/254
14 . . . 159/5 19/9 . 178/14
1396/268
15 . . . 129/3 19/7 . 148/10
1544/278
16 ..... ..... ..... 113/6 13/4 ..... 126/10
1670/288
17 . . . 87/2 6/4 . 93/6
1763/294
18 . . . 60/2 2/1 7/4 69/7
1832/301
19 . . 12/1 26/4 8/3 . 46/8
1878/309
20 . . 62/0 8/6 . . 70/6
1948/315
21 . . 90/3 20/3 . 1/1 111/7
2059/322
22 . 19/0 85/2 19/3 . . 123/5
2182/327
23 . 68/3 21/1 22/1 . . 111/5
2293/332
0 4/1 28/1 23/0 ..... ..... ..... 55/2
2348/334
1 16/5 24/1 . 3/3 . . 43/9
2391/343
2 4/2 25/3 1/1 3/1 . . 33/7
2424/350
3 11/5 18/1 . 1/1 . . 30/7
2454/357
4 24/4 10/2 4/1 2/0 . . 40/7
2494/364
5 25/1 27/0 . . . . 52/1
2546/365
6 10/0 46/0 1/0 . . . 57/0
2603/365
7 5/0 17/0 . . . . 22/0
2625/365
8 1/1 3/1 4/0 ..... ..... ..... 8/2
2633/367
9 . 3/2 4/0 . . . 7/2
2640/369
10 . 3/1 11/0 . . . 14/1
2654/370
11 . 3/1 4/2 47/0 . . 54/3
2708/373
12 . . 9/0 104/3 . . 113/3
2821/376
13 . . 1/0 92/3 5/3 . 98/6
2919/382
14 . . . 72/1 15/7 . 87/8
3006/390
15 . . . 61/0 49/10 . 110/10
3116/400
16 ..... ..... ..... 78/4 56/3 ..... 134/7
3250/407
17 . . . 53/1 15/0 . 68/1
3318/408
18 . . . 52/4 10/4 . 62/8
3380/416
19 . . 18/0 25/0 11/6 1/0 55/6
3435/422
20 . . 66/0 4/1 3/1 . 73/2
3508/424
21 . . 66/1 9/0 5/3 . 80/4
3588/428
22 1/1 55/2 14/0 35/3 1/1 . 106/7
3694/435
23 1/0 46/2 35/2 . . . 82/4
3776/439
DAY1 75/36 460/72 654/87 1009/88 87/44 8/5 .....
2293/332
DAY2 102/20 308/17 261/7 641/25 170/38 1/0 .
1483/107
TOT 177/56 768/89 915/94 1650/113 257/82 9/5 .
3776/439
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