Band conditions sucked!
80 was a MAJOR dissapointment. 10 was crap as well. 15 had at least some
activity, though not as much as I would have liked to see. I spent very
little time on 15. It seems like 40 and 20 were the bread and butter bands.
Most signals from EU were pretty weak and I had to ask for repeats often,
due to QSB and heavy QRM. I was planning on a pretty serious effort, but
couldn't get motivated, due to bad band conditions. This is the first
major DX contest that I didn't work at least one "JA". Only spent 24 hours
at radio.
Band Q's
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160 0
80 9
40 303
20 748
15 10
10 3
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All 1073 x 456 mults.
Score 805,752
Station:
Rig: FT-1000D
AMP: Alpha 78
Software: NA-10.02
OP's: WG9L, W9VU
Ants:
80 Dipole @ 50'
40 402-CD @ 60'
20 TH6-DXX @ 50'
15 same
10 same
Bob Schwerdlin, WG9L
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