ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N1FD
Operator(s): WB1ADR KA1ARB
Station: WB1ADR
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Hollis, NH
Operating Time (hrs): 47
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 30 25
80: 141 70
40: 494 84
20: 975 105
15: 764 100
10: 107 61
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Total: 2511 445 Total Score = 3,352,185
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This year WB1ADR's host station benefited from a shakeout cruise during ARRL DX
CW. As a result we spent most of our traditional frantic 2-day antenna farm
and station building work to completely move the 3 ele. 75 m beam to
the EU side of the tower. We had hoped for a total transformation into
a 75m powerhouse, and we ended up still short of runs and mults
on 75m. Our usual, temporary EU beverage was not much of a help
either. Many EU stations suffered during our countless requests for fills.
On the bright side, we had a breakthrough in total Q's and mults.
Previously we had never broken 2000 Q's or 400 mults. Part of our success
was due to our new strategy of waking up before the morning band openings
instead of sleeping through them. Our score benefited from our big upgrades
this year - fixing the phasing of the tribander stack, replacing some bad
coax,
and moving up to a (used) AL-1500 from a TL-922 amp. We are still using our
trusty TS-850s's, although we managed to forget to bring the inrad filters
to the shack. This definitely hurt us during our runs on 20m and 40m.
Rob, KA1ARB pulled his weight as usual by doing a great job of running 40m
in the middle of the night. He also had the unexpected pleasure of two tower
climbs on Friday. We were rewarded with a whopping 10 extra Q's using the
temporary south vertical dipole beam that he installed.
Lee WB1ADR enjoyed a couple of monster hours on 15 and 20 as the TH7 stack
finally lived up to its potential The four feet of snow in the back yard
reduced the effective height of the entire antenna farm, yet still could
not improve the ground conductivity of the miserable sandy rocks that Lee
calls soil here in New Hampshire.
Unlike our last two major contests where everything that could break or
burn up did so, we did not even fry a single TS-850s front end.
Statistically this was a complete fluke and we will have to redouble our
equipment prep next year to avoid the inevitable.
Thanks to everyone for all the Q's.
Lee WB1ADR, Rob KA1ARB
Rig : TS-850s + AL-1500
Antennas : TH7 #1 @ 90 feet, rotat.
TH7 #2 @ 60 feet, fixed EU
ATB-34 @ 30 feet, fixed SA
K1NQ stack match
402-CD @ 100 feet, rotat.
160m Inv. L @ 80 feet w/2 radials
3 ele 75 m vertical wire parasitic array @ EU
2 ele 40m vertical wire dipole parasitic @ SA
350 foot Bev. @ EU
80m inverted vee apex @ 80 feet
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