ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K5KG
Operator(s): K5K
Station: K5KG
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 37.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 36 28
80: 150 61
40: 313 81
20: 665 99
15: 594 106
10: 663 101
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Total: 2421 476 Total Score = 3,452,904
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
Condx were excellent, especially for the first half of the contest. On the
first night, there was little or now QRN on the low bands, and the high bands
remained open late into the night. On the second night, QRN was high, which
made the low bands more difficult to work.
The statiion was a K3 + the KPA500 amp and KAT Tuner. My high power amp is on
the fritz, so I was limited to the 500 watt amp. Logged with WinTest. The
Elecraft K-Line is fully integrated, so band changing is instantenous. The
instantaneous band changing, along with the WinTest band map displaying
"mults only" made finding needed mults on any band very easy.
Close in stations such as C6, ZF, CO, YN, YS, and XE were difficult to work. At
times, I could hear and work them, but must of the time, they were too close in
to be copyable I find this to be true in general from my SW FL QTH. The
exceptions this weekend, were TI5W and V26M that were loud most of the time.
Also, PJ4X and PJ2T were smashing loud most of the time.
Antennas were C31, 7el 10m yagi, SteppIR Big Vertical on 40m, 80m Lnv Vee, and
160m Inv L. Like my big amp is on the fritz, so is my 40m yagi, so I was
limted to using the SteppIR Big Vert on 40m; it performed extremely well. Some
time during the contest, I disccovered that my 10m yagi went dead. A quick trip
outsied revealed that the ring rotor had rotated past its stop, and ripped the
coax loose. I did not attempt to fix it since the C31 covers 10m. For
receiving, I use a Pixel mag loop, and it did a wonderful job. I would not
have had many of the low band contacts without it. I even used it on 40m the
second night to cut thru the QRN.
73, George, K5KG
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