CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: KT8K
Operator(s): KT8K
Station: KT8K
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: EN82cg SE Michigan
Operating Time (hrs): 5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 0
40: 9
20: 20
15: 1
10: 0
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Total: 30 Prefixes = 28 Total Score = 1,456
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Hard to stay in the chair when conditions are so bad. I averaged 6 or 7 QSO's
per hour, and spent a lot more time screaming into the microphone and not being
heard than N1MM+ apparently believed. I hoped conditions would improve but ...
they did not, and Sunday actually seemed slightly worse. Throughout the
contest I could hear the DX big guns but hardly anyone could hear me.
Hopefully the CW version will see greatly improved propagation.
72 de kt8k - Tim
station equipment:
- Tentec Orion, MFJ Grandmaster Memory Keyer with Bencher BY-1 paddle
- XP laptop running N1MM+ (and nothing else!)
- homebrew RS-232 to keying interface (thanks Dan KB6NU - catch his blog!)
Antennas:
- 20/40/80m multi-wire dipole at 30 feet, fed with RG8x
- 10/15/20m vertical trap dipole fed at 35 feet with RG8x
- 40/80m wire vertical fed with TV twin lead and LDG Z-11 autotuner, feed point
at 12 feet above ground, 2 radials per band
Thanks for enjoying my ham radio (and other) songs:
"I Want a Big Tower" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWZjzrzgwA
"If You Ain't Runnin', You Ain't Winnin'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWZjzrzgwA
All this and more at www.youtube.com/themandolinmaniac "I LIVE for those
hits!" (and QSO's)
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