Maryland/DC QSO Party - 2020
Call: AA4TI
Operator(s): AA4TI
Station: AA4TI
Class: Amplified HP
QTH: Florida
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 2 2
40: 1 1
20: 2 3
15:
10:
6:
2:
432:
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Total: 5 6 0 Mults = 9 Total Score = 189
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
Yesterday was a true test of resolve. Last week my remote tuner failed and I
ordered another one. It was scheduled to arrive yesterday by 9 pm. At 10AM I
managed to chase down the UPS truck and get my tuner. I zoomed home and
installed the tuner only to find out that it did not work. After a couple hours
I finally figured out that an internal switch had been set incorrectly at the
factory during assembly - MFJ rides again. Once I got the tuner working, I
could not run more than a couple hundred watts without it giving me a high SWR
spike periodically when keying which caused the amp to fault repeatedly. I
entered the QSO Party as an AMP station but only had a couple contacts over 100
watts. To compound matters I heard very little on the bands... practically no
MD stations to be harvested. I never heard the bonus station which appeared to
be a part time effort. The bottom line was that I spent the whole day either
working the contest or working on the station. 4 hours BIC and 10 hours CAT -
Cussing at Tuner. Not a productive day at all. Not much fun either since the
tuner issue is still not resolved.
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