RAC Winter Contest
Call: K9YC
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC
Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs CW Mults Ph Mults
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160: 29 7 3 4
80: 65 33 7 7
40: 100 57 9 9
20: 126 84 10 12
15: 94 51 8 10
10: 42 19 7 9
6:
2:
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Total: 456 251 44 41 Total Score = 516,800
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
I put on the full court press for this one, and enjoyed it a lot.
Running this contest on both CW and SSB lends itself quite well to SO2R. It's
also a very relaxed contest, and thus an excellent opportunity to learn
contesting, learn a new radio or new logging software, and build SO2R skills.
I've been running the YCCC SO2R box for more than a year now and really like
it. The only thing I haven't figured out is how to get stereo from the K3s
through it for diversity.
Everything worked fine with one exception -- I discovered that the DX
Engineering preamp for my Beverages has died, so I patched around it for
the Stew Perry. As it turns out, the K3 has plenty of gain to accept the
output of a reasonably long Beverage (mine are 550 ft and 500 ft long).
I'm really pissed that there's no schematic of the preamp in the DXE manual. I
suspect a pair of blown transistors. On the good side, they're 2N-numbered.
73, Jim K9YC
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