ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: K7ZSD
Operator(s): KI7Y, K2PO, K7RF, KR7X, KN7K, NC7M, K7AR, W7ZB, K7ZSD
Station: K7ZSD
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: NW Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 12 9
80: 80 41
40: 33 59
20: 953 112
15: 203 42
10: 11 4
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Total: 1603 267 Total Score = 1,267,182
Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
Comments:
Another humdinger of a contest. The third year in a row of abstinence from
propagation. Twenty meters was good both mornings. Sunday it was stacked three
and four deep on every frequency from top to bottom. Everybody on one band.
Rate was poor at times, too many fills. We need 15 and 10m, no Europe for 3
years. I read the soapboxes from guys on the east coast that say Geez, WHO
NEEDS SUNSPOTS. Sure, working thousands of Europeans from the east coast is
easy. If we had the same activity out here from VK, JA, BY, and UA0, weâ??d say
the same. Try reading the numbers on jerseys at a pro basketball game from the
nose bleed seats. We worked nine Euros on 40m the entire weekend with two big
yagis on separate towers at 142 ft. and 112 ft. On 80m we worked two Euros, GM
and CU, with a bobtail curtain on Europe.
WHO NEEDS SUNSPOTS, we had a great bunch of guys, some comic relief, good food
and drink, and four inches of snow over the weekend. I just can not thank
enough the fellows who stopped by here this weekend. They did a great job. It
is work to sit in front of a radio in the middle of the night with a 2 Q per
hour rate. The hour meter in Wintest registered only 37 hrs though guys were in
the chair for at least 42, only time out for a couple of meals. WE out west NEED
SUNSPOTS.
Thanks for all the Qs, Brad
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