CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: NN4F
Operator(s): NN4F
Station: NN4F
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Ridgeville, SC
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 280 23 85
80: 563 34 121
40: 615 37 137
20: 730 38 155
15: 164 35 75
10: 41 16 21
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Total: 2393 183 594 Total Score = 5,330,997
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Equipment: FTDX-9000D + HF2500DX, FT1000MP-MKV + HF2500DX, SDR-14 + Skimmer
Assisted: Packet + Skimmer
Antennas:
10m - 7-el @ 70ft
15m - 7-el @ 100ft
20m - 6/6 @ 85/100ft
40m - 3el @ 145ft
80m - Rotatable Dipole @ 140ft / Two Phased Shunt-Fed 150ft Towers
160m - 1/2 wave Dipole @ 65ft / Two Phased Shunt-Fed 150ft Towers
3 x 900ft Beverages
20-10 - TA63M @ 55ft for Searching
The Story:
Have you ever had one of those weekends where things start bad, like missing
the first two hours due to work commitments, then you get home get settled for
a semi serious effort, and you turn on the radio and the low bands sound great,
no noise, you can hear pretty much everything, all over EU, well it just got
better from there.....Skimmer worked like a dream, and my M/2 station was set
up for SO2R, utilizing the FT9k and a FT1K, the both worked flawlessly under
the control of N1MM, the amps idled at 1500w all day, no problems there... The
antennas turned when they were supposed to, just a great experience. 40/80/160
were surprisingly good here, as shown by the Q's
I soon noticed that my score was climbing nicely, and was about to call it a
night at 4am, get a few hours sleep, and return in the morning, well I did some
math and thought at this rate I can challenge the K4 AA record set by N4RJ(KM9P)
in '91 of 4,481,038 so that kept me in the chair and kept me going. Well here we
are 46 hours later and apart from a couple of quick breaks and coffee and food
from the wife, we have a score of 5,330,997. Hopefully the UBN's and Nil's
won't hurt me too much so we will see...
I had a great time, but boy do my ears ache and my head is spinning, and I can
still hear code with the radio OFF..
This was the First serious (SO2R) operation of the new station and antenna farm
here at NN4F, so watch out boys, we'll be around big time next year...
Till the next big one... de Paul - NN4F 73
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