RAC Winter Contest
Call: VE6TL
Operator(s): VE6TL
Station: VE6TL
Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs CW Mults Ph Mults
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160: 12 3 1 2
80: 30 16 7 4
40: 40 7 3 2
20: 165 165 5 6
15: 54 65 6 4
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 301 256 22 18 Total Score = 100,320
Club: ALBERTA CLIPPERS
Comments:
I forgot about the start of the contest until it was five hours old. Then I
rushed to turn on my station and found the bands almost devoid of signals. On
Friday night I only managed to work 60 or 70 stations on 40/80/160 combined. I
got to try out my new BigIR vertical and was delighted that I didn't have to
tune it as the presets were already there. Unfortunately, the new SDA-100
controller seems only to work in "autotrack" mode with Logger32 software and
not with N1MM. I'll have to do some tinkering as I need to figure this out.
Nevetheless, I got good reports on the BigIR. I went to bed about 1:30AM on
Saturday morning (local MST) and resumed the contest around 7AM. The bands
were still pretty dead here and discovered that I probably should have gone to
20m a bit earlier than I did. I worked the contest until 12:30PM, when I took
my daughter to the Calgary Flames hockey game (free tickets). So I only had
limited time to do the contest. I set a goal of 100,000 points and with 5
minutes to go, still needed 7,000 points. I desperately tuned 20m CW and at
the end found VA2RAC and another VE2 station who wanted to QSY to 15m CW for a
mult. It turns out I needed him too. Then I heard a VE1 right next door and
got another mult. I topped 100,000 points with a minute to spare!
My score this year was less than half of last year's score, but so was my time
on. Next year I hope to do a more solid effort. Maybe we'll even have a few
more sun spots.
73,
Jerry
VE6TL
Rig: FT-1000MP
Amp: FL-7000
Ant: TH6DXX for 10-15-20
Alpha Delta shortened dipole/Vee for 80/40
SteppIR BigIR 80-10 (mostly used on 80m)
Shunt-fed tower for 160m
Software: N1MM
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