ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ/9
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 46 34
80: 126 61
40: 134 57
20: 365 92
15: 110 37
10: 28 11
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Total: 809 292 Total Score = 708,684
Club:
Comments:
Continent List 2009 ARRL DX Phone N4TZ/9
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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N.A. calls = 23 31 24 40 34 5 157
S.A. calls = 5 15 22 42 71 23 178
Euro calls = 15 72 78 267 1 0 433
Afrc calls = 2 3 2 8 1 0 16
Asia calls = 0 0 0 4 0 0 4
JA calls = 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
Ocen calls = 1 4 7 4 3 0 19
Total calls = 46 126 134 365 110 28 810
one dupe on 20 need to find it!
Wow! N1UR worked more guys on 20 than I or N5AW worked on all 6 bands.
Ouch! But, if you take away 20, then my total was better than his
on the other 5.
This year seems to have been a repeat of last year propagation wise,
with no sunspots. The activity on 15 on Sunday seemed even lower
than last year. On 15m, 6W1SJ only Africa and CU2DX only Europeans
heard or worked. Only worked JA on 80 & 40, not 20. It seemed that
the lower bands had more DX available on them, both in quantity and
variety of multipliers.
Lots of problems:
before contest -
1) pin bolt sheared in prop pitch rotor - antenna windmilled for
several days until I got a climber to fix in 30 mph winds with air temp
at 10 degrees F
2) two beverages broken from tree debris falling in woods
3) shack computer wouldn't boot (BIOS battery dead and no one around
here can find where a battery is in the computer anywhere! No info
in motherboard manual and nothing found on internet.) Need another
antique computer to hold W9XT card (ISA bus) and extra COM/LPT
card for interfacing shack equipment. K9MI was kind enough to
lend me a computer a few days ahead of contest to give me time
to set things up.
during contest -
0617 first night - transmitting on both rigs at same time which the
Top-Ten SO2R box is supposed to prevent! Recycling power in shack
seems to clear this up for a while.
2242 first day (Sat afternoon) Omni VI have long hang time with carrier
sent after talking stops. Stopped using Omni VI at this time -
turned off SO2R box and bypassed SO2R box so could only use one radio
2257 Orion buzzing (motorboating - big spikes) seemed to interact with
SP level
0008 second night - vox hanging on Orion - not going back to Rx
0018 DSP T/O O message on Orion screen after pushing F1/F2 keys on pod
Master reset got things sorta going again.
Motorboating seems related to using external preamp to boost level from
SO2R box to line level input for back of Orion (OMNI VI has mike level
input on back). Dug out Heil adapter to use front panel jack on Orion -
cured buzzing.
Had a number of crashes second day seemingly related to (mis)using
function keys on pod to control internal voice keyer on Orion since
can't use W9XT card without the cabling to the back of rig (see above).
Total operating time after both planned and unplanned off-times: 36 hours
Missed much of second evening 40m prime-time slot with rig problems.
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