NA Sprint CW Contest
Call: W5ZL
Operator(s): W5ZL
Station: W5ZL
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 3:25
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80: 88 1:30
40: 70 1:10
20: 48 :45
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Total: 206 Mults = 37 Total Score = 7,622
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: CTDXCC Dashers
Comments:
Talk about your "just-in-time" operations. Slept off the previous day's long
trip home from KH6, then got a call from a buddy to go play golf Saturday
afternoon (you just HAVE to do these things). Rolling back in about 10 minutes
before 0000Z, I flipped on the radio and heard teammate W5JAW in warm-up mode -
saying hello to him distracted me from getting the logging software set up
(doh!). Finally got everything working about 3 mins into the contest and played
hard on 20 to make the most of a band where I have a real antenna before it went
away. Though 20 was fairly productive, it was mult-limited (mostly CA and Pac
NW) and thinned out pretty quickly. My antenna quality drops like a rock as I
go down in frequency. Stayed on 40 for about the next hour and then went to 80
for the remainder. I hadn't really planned a full out effort for the sprint,
but was having too much fun to quit. I took a half hour out to eat dinner
(yeah, I know - I'm a slacker),then finished things off. 80 is usually a very
poor band for me, but I seemed to be heard a little better than usual,
especially in the last hour when things had settled out a little. With my
sub-par antenna and 100 watts I don't expect to, nor do I, win many jump balls
on the low bands.
GREAT fun, though, and terrific CW ops.
Radio: IC-756 Pro II
Antennas: Tennadyne T-11 LPDA at 51' for 20M, W9INN multi-band dipole for
30-160, center at 50', sloping down to near ground level.
N1MM Logger.
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