Call: W1IA Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Multi-Single
Power: High Power
QSO QSO PTS COUNTRIES
160 40 120 31
80 154 453 56
40 399 1197 80
20 923 2763 84
15 92 276 55
10 0 0 0
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Totals 1608 4809 306 = 1,471,554
Ops: K1TWF, W1IA, W1TQ, N1TT, W1ES, WO1N, K1WD
Club Affiliation: YCCC
Station: FT1000D, AL1200, 40-2CD @ 60, TH7 @ 50', A4 @ 50', 80M Dipole,
160M Inv L
Story (as told by WO1N):
The general consensus of the regulars in the week before was limited
involvement especially because of Valentines day. A couple of us had to
pay our dues Friday night to keep the better halves happy (hey no problem,
first night out with my wife in over six months!). As a result we
limited the setup to one station instead of the multi-two we usually
do from K1TWF's.
W1IA and W1ES openned on 40M with one of our best starts ever. 2 hrs
at 60q each. I paid my first visit around 0400Z and found W1IA still
making good progress on 80M having already swept 160M once.
I left when W1TQ showed up for the graveyard shift. Dave eked out a
pretty respectible 26 hr on 40M at 0600 and slogged it out til 1000Z on
40M. The move to 20M was earlier than we usually do, but it looks like
it paid off with an 82 hr at 1100Z and 101 at 1200Z. Looking at
the breakdown, an early move to 15M wasn't nearly as productive and
they were back to 20M at 1600Z.
My shift wasn't until 1800Z. I started with a 56hr on 20M, moved to 15M
for a sweep. Back to 20M til 2200Z. Highlight was a run of 40 JA's
around our sunset. I then bugged out for what looks to be just
in time. I see a lot of band moves and some single digit Q hours
between 0200Z and 1200Z. N1TT had so much fun during the 0600Z to 1000Z
Sun morn shift that when I showed up he literally threw the headphones
at me. Although my rates weren't much better until 1200Z I managed a run of
10 mults with the highlight being AH6MZ on 160M. The rest of the day can
be summed up in one band, 20M. We ran all day with our best hour being
1300Z with 83Q's (only 1 mult!). The move to 40M was at around 2030Z and
was productive with 76 and 58Q hrs. In the last hour we moved to
80M and squeaked out a 30Q hour.
In all the conditions seemed good. It was probably a mistake not going
to 10M at all, but the AL1200 is pretty touchy about that (we keep blowing
the fuses on the QSK card on 10M), so I think we were a little gun shy.
Also, in retrospect we clearly did not spend enough time on 15M, but
it was tough to give up the run freq on 20M. We resisted the
temptation several times during Sunday. K1TWF rearranged the station
prior to the test and it was a big plus. The after contest log review
featured several single malts that made the score look better as the
evening progressed ;-).
CU in the next one,
Ken
WO1N
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