ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: W1CTN
Operator(s): W1CTN
Station: W1CTN
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 14.3
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 28 23
80: 67 45
40: 95 52
20: 185 66
15: 111 42
10: 1 1
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Total: 487 229 Total Score = 334,569
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I had planned to put in more time, but a tower had to come down at the house of
a friend on Saturday. His house was sold due a divorce and the tower had to go.
It could not be postponed and he is a friend, so what else can be said, except
you can never let down a friend.
Now lets talk about playing radioman...
It's time to start asking the Sun God for some spots. Let's just hope we don't
have to sacrifice a virgin to get them. If so, it might be a long wait these
days !!! Hihi
My station is now operational but only 60% complete. I lost an important rope
for my 40 meter wire beam and only had a dipole to do battle with on 40 meters.
It worked but I didn't feel loud at all. It has always been a 1 call antenna for
me. I did work a ZL with it.
I still do not have my South American antennas back up, so the log periodic did
quite alot of dancing from European headings to ones south of the Equator.
Had quite a number of 5 band QSO's with the Caribbean crowd, but only one 6
bander. It was with FY5KE, which was also my only 10 meter contact. I was
constantly asking the Caribbean ops what their 10 meter frequencies were, but
they all said they didn't have propagation to the states.
Most exotic worked was VP8 on 20 and 15. I heard VQ9LA on 15, but the pileup
was very large and he said he was having high line noise. He probably wouldn't
have heard me anyway.
I did get a few short runs going on 15 meters, but it was primarily a S/P
weekend.
15 meters was a nice band to play radioman on Sunday. It was crowded enough to
keep it interesting but not like the mob scene of 20 meters. I don't know how
many layers of signals were on 20 meters, but if Hell has audio it can't be
much different.
40 was okay with the usual bedlam. I didn't hear as many Europeans above 7125
as I thought I would. GW4BLE was above 7125 with very good signals. Lots of W's
and K's (including myself a few times) transmitting on their listening
frequencies. Also, someone has to tell the Europeans that a listening frequency
of 7299.5 is a little too close to the edge.
80 was good and alot of fun. How about KP4KE's qrp signal and 3 element wire
beam! He held a run frequency with that combo for along time. I wonder how high
it is.
I tried only to work 160 on the top and bottom of the hour and it worked out
very well for me. In the past I committed way too much time there. I worked
KH7X at sunrise Saturday morning and I could barely hear him, and they're
running legal limit. They must have exceptional receiving antennas as I must
have been between a whisper and ESP.
Well that's it for this contest season. For me it's time to get everything back
up and raise the tower another 25 feet.
73 and thanks for the Q's
Dave W1CTN
Radio Ansonia
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