ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N4KG
Operator(s): N4KG
Station: N4KG
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: ALA
Operating Time (hrs): 33:16
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 77 56
80: 179 80
40: 251 86
20: 287 90
15: 206 83
10: 86 46
-------------------
Total: 1086 441 Total Score = 1,436,778
Club: Alabama Contest Group
Comments:
WOW, what Great Conditions, on ALL Bands!
I almost decided not to play in this one after burning the DX Candle at both
ends for 3 weeks chasing all the Big DXpeditions (VP8ORK S9DX TJ9PF).
Friday night, I turned on the Radio and just kept chasing Multipliers until
1015Z after working all of the deep South American Countries on 80M at their
sunrise .
Then I SLEPT from 1100Z until 1600Z while everyone else was working Europe on15
and 10 Meters. NOT a Good Plan if you want to maximize your score :-(
I really need a Daytime Operator to take over after I play on the Low Bands all
night!
OTOH, I believe I set a personal record for Multi-Band contacts with
22 stations worked on 6 Bands
21 stations worked on 5 Bands
38 stations worked on 4 Bands
46 stations worked on 3 Bands
69 stations worked on 2 Bands
421 stations worked on 1 Band.
With all of my MonoBanders unusable due to damage from 30 years of tree growth
and/or lack of preventive maintenance (i.e. not replacing tape on coax runs)
I was limited to the following antennas:
160M Inverted L in 80' tree East, and 140' Elevated GP West (intervening
tower)
80M Elevated GP (40'Tower w/TH7) NE,NW, Wire Vertical in tree SE/SW
40M Two Half-Waves in Phase (80M dip)120' NE/SW, Inverted Vee 60' SE/NW
20M TH7 at 40'
15M TH7 at 40'
10M TH7 at 40'
Radio: Icom 746 w/cascaded 500 Hz Filters (and Audio Peak Filter set 160Hz)
Amplifier: B&W PT2500 at 1000 Watts Output (600W on 160M due to low drive)
I was amazed at how well those simple Low Band Antennas Played, busting many
Big Pileups to Europe on 160,80,40 Meters. Conditions were simply
outstanding!
Tom N4KG in North Alabama
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
______________________________________________
3830 mailing list
3830@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
|