NA Sprint CW Contest
Call: VP2E
Operator(s): N5AU
Station: VP2E
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: ANGUILLA
Operating Time (hrs): 4.0
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80: 71 1.25
40: 94 1.75
20: 59 1.0
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Total: 224 Mults = 40 Total Score = 8,920
Club:
Team:
Comments:
The VP2E station still has a few broken antennas from hurricane OMAR last
October plus normal wear and tear from the extended life in a salt water
environment, so most of the big antennas were inop for this event, but I
suspected everyone would like a VP2E multiplier anyway.
The main loss was the 3L 40M yagi. I put up a sloping dipole on 40 with the
top about 50 feet. It worked OK, but had lots of RF back in the shack and the
keyer went wild periodically, so I lost some operating time trying to calm it
down. Apologies to all the guys it went nuts on during the QSO. I quickly
found some ferrite for the leads going into the keyer and that cured most of it
along with a power reduction to levels it would tolerate.
I called quite a few guys who couldn't hear me (CQ'd again), but most people
came back first call. There were only a few times where stations were
waiting to call after the first station departed. After a few CQ's I usually
got callers.
Hope to see everyone in the ARRL CW in a couple of weeks. The 3L 40 will not
be operational by then. The sloper obviously isn't going to do the job on 40,
so I will try something else.
73 N5AU
VP2E station
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