ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: KV4FZ
Operator(s): KV4FZ
Station: KV4FZ
Class: SOSB/160 HP
QTH: U.S. Virgin Islands
Operating Time (hrs): 18.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 694 58
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 694 58 Total Score = 120,756
Club:
Comments:
The ARRL DX Contest is one that I have a least a chance in making the Top
Ten.....but, Mr. Murphy showed up again. (1) Wasted to much time answering
Eu's who were calling and calling. (2) Normally on the NW Beverage I can null
them out, (3) but the two wire NW broke and had to settle for the N Beverage
which let them be heard. My West Beverage is too long for East Coast LP and
QRP, so I did the best I could with what was working, (3) City power failure
for an hour during a nice Saturday evening run (4) missed South Dakota,(4) Wife
ran the dryer when I was operating and out went the breaker panel with a arc
behind the breaker..so I had her grab up an emery board and I climbed up on a
milk crate with a flashlight held in my mouth to clean the hot 240 bus in back
of the breaker. (5) Had to leave the shack at 1000Z for the local State Fair
for a remote broadcast so I missed a normally very productive time slot.
Other than that things were better than normal. I could hold a frequency 1818
Friday night and 1821.5 on Saturday. I did beat my score last year but missed
my goal of 700Q's by six and if I had worked SD and VO2, which normally are not
a problem, I might have ended in the top five....but like they say wait till
next year. It was all my fault as I knew the shack breaker need to be changed
and I was planning to put a backup NW Beverage...but I did not pay attention to
my own feeings that both these things had to be done before the contest. So I
have no one to blame except myself.
All QSO's's are going up on LOTW as soon as the site is back up so you will
save a stamp or SASE. If you want a nice tropical VI card then QSL via QRZ.com
address.
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