ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: W4WWQ
Operator(s): W4WWQ
Station: W4WWQ
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: VA FM07ii
Operating Time (hrs): 2.4
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 2 2
80: 12 11
40: 36 24
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 50 37 Total Score = 5,550
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
All S&P. Propagation wasn't good when I was ON for my 100 watts. Too easy
to be distracted. No power interruptions and antennas stayed in the air, BUT my
3 element SteppIR boom did a 45 degree twist so I wasn't horizontal or
vertical. And what ever angle it was didn't match any DX oriented antennas.
Also, the wide kept blowing (rotating) the beam clockwise to due South. The
calibration didn't change so it appears the Brake slipped. Happened three times
over the weekend. Now with nicer WX I have lowered the trapped dipole and find
the connecting wire at the balun had broken and the element just being looped
thru the eye bolt wasn't a good enough connection for power above 125 watts on
40. So this simple operation now has turned into tree trimming project. One
thing turns into another . . .
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