I like to refer to this as "Triibander/single wire without the tribander".
Didn't run as much as I should have. Saturday was very frustrating for me,
phone is tougher than CW when you have puny antennas. I couldn't get
anything going on 20 in the early afternoon and took some off-time during
prime time (watched some taped episodes of South Park). After talking to
my out-of-town wife late Saturday afternoon, I finally got my act together
a little and had some good runs on 40 and 75 (JY9QJ called me on 75, he had
called me on 40 the night before). My half-time score was about 900K (666
x 408).
15 was just amazing on Sunday, great signals, late opening, but made some
band-switching mistakes again (should have stayed on 15 about 2 more hours
instead of trying to go to 20), though not as seriously bad as Saturday.
OD5NJ and 7P8CI called me on 20M Sunday afternoon right in a row! I
probably could have won this category, even without the requisite
tri-bander. Oh well, there's always next year, when I might actually have
the tri-bander!
Favorite thing heard: VK2APK around 0635Z Sunday a.m. saying, "Whoever is
making noise on the frequency, please stop, you bloody bastard!"
73 - Jim AD1C
CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 1998
**** Tribander / Single Wire ****
Call: AD1C Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Single Operator
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
160 0 0 0.0 0
80 204 714 3.5 69
40 251 1402 5.6 136
20 516 1021 2.0 283
15 353 1002 2.8 103
10 80 223 2.8 31
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Totals 1404 4362 3.1 623 = 2,717,526
Total 0 point QSOs: 262
Rig: Icom 756 and AL-1200 amp (1.5KW out)
Antennas: G5RV up 35' (10M), Cushcraft R7 vertical up 10' (3.5M)
Operating time: 33.5 hours according to CT.
Contest club affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
I'm too embarassed to attach my rate sheet. Maybe next time. Here's the
continent breakdown:
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 0 103 29 208 29 13 382 26.9
South America 0 3 2 48 24 61 138 9.7
Europe 0 93 215 218 284 1 811 57.1
Asia 0 2 4 28 9 0 43 3.0
Africa 0 3 2 9 8 6 28 2.0
Oceania 0 2 6 8 3 0 19 1.3
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Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> http://jjr.ne.mediaone.net/
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