ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: K8AZ
Operator(s): K8AZ, K8BL, K8MR, K8NZ, W8KIC, WT8C
Station: K8AZ
Class: M/S HP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 28 26
80: 152 67
40: 258 78
20: 901 124
15: 875 110
10: 396 99
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Total: 2610 504 Total Score = 3,938,760
Club: North Coast Contesters
Comments:
For us at 'AZ, the contest started with S9+ line noise to JA on 10m and S9+ line
noise to EU on 160m. Fortunately, with some light rain Saturday afternoon, the
line noise dissipated enough to make those bands usable.
10m was a big disappointment, with all the EU worked skew path (over Africa) and
Asia and far Pacific worked skew path over KH6. The 4x5L10 stack fixed on EU
was rendered useless. Might be time to turn it into a BIG South antenna.
On 160m, we heard lots of East Coasters working dozens of spotted EU
multipliers, especially Friday night, but most of them were not even detectable,
much less workable from Ohio. Saturday night was much quieter, but activity
seemed to be down.
We had much bettter than usual success CQing on 40m and 75m, something which,
from W8, is rarely as productive as S&P.
On Sunday afternoon, there were big holes in 15m and even some on 20m,
suggesting a decrease in activity. Actually turned on CNN to make sure the war
hadn't started.
Special thanks to K1EA, who did lots of work to fix CT9.87 -- even fixed a
long-standing "ALT-Y" bug. Using the K1TTT ethernet, we ran CT on 4 computers
with only one minor crash in the contest. For the first time ever, all 4
computers had exactly the same score at the end.
See y'all at Dayton.
Tom, K8AZ
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