ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N1IW
Operator(s): N1IW
Station: N1IW
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 10 9
80: 40 28
40: 75 44
20: 280 72
15: 128 48
10: 2 2
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Total: 535 203 Total Score = 325,206
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
FT-2000 + Aplha 87A
3 over 3 SteppIRs for 20-15-10 at 35' and 90'
2 ele M2 on 40M at 60' fixed on Eu
264' OCFD for 160M/80M at 80'
40M dipole at 70', N-S broadside
500' NE/SW beverage
Came off a very busy week on the work front so energy levels were pretty low.
Set a goal of 500 Qs and then proceeded to baptize the FT-2000 in its first SSB
contest. Still haven't worked all of the kinks out of the audio routing using
the Microham MK2R+, so did not delve into the land of SO2R this time. I did
eventually figure out how to use the MK2R+ voice codec for DVK too. The FT-2000
performance and configurability (is that a word?) never fails to amaze me. Make
no mistake though, it is definitely not a plug-and-play rig.
Several times during my Eu runs on 20M (where I clearly had a clean 1.8 kHz
swath to work the Sunday afternoon crowded room full of mumbling Europeans at a
60-70 rate), I had adjacent stations drop in and tell me the frequency was in
use. And then, when I initially would ignore them, they would krank up their
audio or processor gain and wipe out my receiver passband. Isn't that called
"intentional interference"? Anyway, I knew my TX signal was clean as I had
checked it out before the contest on a spectrum analyzer and noted all of the
level settings. I also asked some of the guys in EU I was working to see if I
was splattering: nope, just loud. Come on you knuckleheads... Either acquire a
descent receiver or switch to S&P! One of the challenges of an SSB contest I
guess... dealing with stations calling CQ with 10 kW transmitters and listening
on a crystal receiver.
Anyway, made my goal plus a few and had some fun in the process. Thanks for the
Qs and see you all again in the fall!
-- Mike, N1IW
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