ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N4ZR
Operator(s): N4ZR
Station: N4ZR
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 1 1
40: 112 41
20: 210 79
15: 231 87
10: 47 29
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Total: 601 237 Total Score = 427,311
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Spent my limited time 99% S&P with the Reverse Beacon Network, between painting
tasks on our newly remodeled bathroom. AB5K kindly provided a beta copy of AR
Cluster 6, which incorporated some filters specifically intended to cut down on
the number of busted spots that people have complained about, particularly on
Sunday. Preliminarily, I am blown away - I did not notice a single busted spot
while operating, and a fairly careful scan of my bandmaps late Sunday afternoon
did not find a one. Now to review the data.
First Europeans on 10M in several years - all on southerly skew paths,
including II9T who peaked due south. Also pleasantly surprised by 6W, J5, and
ZS QSOs.
40M was another surprise - Friday afternoon I noticed high SWR on the 40M Yagi,
and a quick visual showed a loading wire had come adrift. That left as my only
option a 40M dipole sloping North, with the top end at about 40 feet. To my
surprise, it worked very well - I was even able to run Europeans with it, and
worked nearly everyone I called. Sure wished I had the Yagi.
Station:
K3/SB-220
N1MM Logger + RBN
stacked C-3Es at 22 and 30M
sloping 40M dipole, broken EF-240S at 32M
80M lazy vee oriented NE
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