What Alabama QSO Party? No scores for last two years. No one wanting to
sponsor it.
Great score.
Dan/W4NTI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Walker" <rnwalker at bellsouth.net>
To: <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:44 AM
Subject: [SECC] K4TD ARRL DX CW Results
>
> I have been in the process of getting a rotating tower system installation
> activated from my QTH. It looked like we weren't going to make it in
> time,
> but at the 11th hour things seemed to fell into place.
>
> We managed to get my antenna system on the air around midnight Friday so I
> lost six hours on the front end. Since the system is new, we were also
> running experiments during the contest to diagnose an SWR issue on the
> stack
> of tribanders.
>
> Obviously I was interested in seeing how the new system would perform. A
> contact with a KH6 on 40M relieved all doubt that the system was working
> okay on that band. He was working a pile of stations when I gave him a
> call. He returned my call and took the time to ask me about my station.
> He
> told me that my signal was 100 dB over S9. (I don't think I have ever
> seen
> a rig with 100dB on the S-meter so I don't know how to objectively
> evaluate
> his comment). However, it was the emotional high point of the contest for
> me. :)
>
> I did hear some of you on the air during the contest. The guys over at
> NQ4I
> were doing a "bang-up" business from what I heard. It seems that all the
> hard work on the antennas really paid off. Congratulations to them on a
> great effort.
>
> I know my QSO rate wasn't that high, but it is the first time I've worked
> a
> sustained pile-up like that since 1979. I am under pressure to get better
> if I want to stay competitive with Dan in the AL QSO party...
>
>
> CALLSIGN: K4TD
> ARRL-SECTION: AL
> CLUB: South East Contest Club
> CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
> CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH CW
> OPERATING TIME: 26.75 Hours
>
> Band QSOs Pts Cty
> 3.5 85 255 38
> 7 516 1548 81
> 14 442 1326 88
> 21 248 744 85
> 28 45 135 35
> Total 1336 4008 327
> Score: 1,310,616
>
> For those of you who are interested in the antenna system, here are the
> specifics:
>
> 160M: See Note
> 80M: Rotating dipole at 155' (M2)
> 40M: 4 Element yagi at 140' (Opti-beam)
> 20M: 4/4/4 at 125'/85'/45' (Opti-beam)
> 15M: 4/4/4 at 125'/85'/45' (Opti-beam)
> 10M: 8/8/8 at 125'/85'/45' (Opti-beam)
>
> Note: Unfortunately I had to cancel the plan for the 80M/160M inverted-L
> at
> the last minute, so the summer project will be to add 160M capability.
>
>
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