RAC Canada Day Contest - 2019
Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J
Class: M/S LP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 12:38
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs CW Mults Ph Mults
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160:
80: 65 0 4 0
40: 75 0 4 0
20: 120 17 9 3
15: 53 4 5 1
10: 14 0 1 0
6:
2:
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Total: 327 21 23 4 Total Score = 55,890
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Happy Birthday VA, VE, VY, VO! And many special prefixes.
I started this contest with a real space shot blooper. I wanted it to be a
casual effort single band 80m and I got a little too casual. I set up for it
before supper with my station pulling spots from VE7CC as per usual daily
operation. When the contest started at 8 pm locally not much was happening, so I
went for a walk and read for a while. Finally some activity showed up and I
jumped into operating but never turned off my spots. And I used them. I know
that I couldn't be assisted but it completely escaped my mind. A little after
midnight I pulled the plug and went to sleep. My first thought upon awakening in
the morning, was "Sh-t, I was assisted, now what can I do?" Well, it
made me an M/S entry so my only reasonable choice was to forge ahead as an all
band M/S station. So be it.
I operated M/S all the rest of Saturday and had a really good time. 15m and 10m
were both open for some unexpected mults and I even did some phone. There was a
lot of QSB on all the bands 20-10, but it cycled quickly and may not have been
symmetrical on both ends of QSOs.
There were lots of storms in the Northeast with accompanying QRN. Sometimes I
have more QRN on 40m than 80m. That seemed to be the case Monday evening.
It makes me wonder about the lightning RF spectrum and its propagation. I know
lightning RF energy is largely concentrated at VLF, but there's lots left over
in MF and the lower HF spectrum. There's also propagation to consider for
distant storms. Lightning QRN is just another radio signal.
Maybe I can research that (but not with local electrical storms!!). I use the
real time lightning storm sites to find them. Such as:
http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php
In the summer I usually have that running all the time to track local storms as
well as see what's happening elsewhere in the continent.
I can set up two receivers in my 6500 and do some comparisons. My own system
isn't flat from 80m to 40m, but all I'm initially concerned with is what I hear,
not doing a rigorous scientific study.
Thanks for the good time.
73,
Ken, AB1J
Flex 6500
N1MM Logger+
20m, 15m & 10m attic dipoles
80m, 40m outdoor 66' stealth wire, Dentron manual tuner and indoor counterpoise
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