1998 ARRL 10 METER CONTEST
Call: W7WHY
Category: Single Operator Low Power
Time On: 22 Hours
MODE Contacts Points States Countries
CW 619 2488 55 25
SSB 323 646 44 15
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Totals 942 3134 99 40 = 435,626 points
Equipment: Ft-840, TH-3 at 35 feet
Soapbox:
Boy, was that fun or what?? This is the perfect contest. Work
it all day and sleep all night. I set a goal for 800 contacts
and passed that about 2100Z Sunday. I got the TH-3 up a couple
of hours before the contest and had problems with it all
weekend. The SWR kept changing on it. I had to crank the tower
down twice and work on it. I thought I had it fixed Saturday as
it was working good, and then I got up Sunday morning and the
thing was resonant at 26.6 mhz. Down the tower came again for
another fix. I ran it through the tuner whenever I got about
28.300.
High point of the contest was working K5WHY at 2306z on
Saturday, then KB0WHY at 2309z. First time to work another
WHY. This is one contest where I can finally keep a frequency
and get a run going. Kept the same frequency for over 5 hour
Saturday. Thanks for all the contacts and I hope everyone has a
very Merry Christmas.
Tom W7WHY
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