ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: KH6TU
Operator(s): AD6E
Station: KH6TU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: PAC
Operating Time (hrs): 19
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 187 45
40: 579 52
20: 405 49
15: 907 56
10: 625 54
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Total: 2703 256 Total Score = 2,075,904
Club: Mother Lode DX/Contest Club
Comments:
Fun time on the high bands. Nice to have sunspots again.
Disappointment: Low band antenna broken
My 160 OCF dipole matching network failed immediately. I have a HB switchable
matching network at the feed point that can move resonance from 80 to 75 to 160
by remote relays. Friday night it showed high SWR and shut me out of both bands
the first night. I spent two hours troubleshooting Sat morning but could not
find the problem. Sat after noon I spent two more hours on it and finally
bypassed the matching networks. That was good enough for the KPA1500 to tune it
so I could run 80 (only) the second night with reduced QRO.
My only other complaint is my own fat fingers caused the usual problems and
probably a bunch of busted calls.
Overall rate was excellent for my part time effort. SO2R was of marginal use
due to high rates that hovered in the 200/hr range much of the time plus a lot
of really weak stations near or in the noise floor necessitated using only one
radio. Nice to see the last ten rate >300/hr a couple of times.
K4 + KPA1500 to 3 element SteppIR at 70ft
K3 + P3 + Acom 2000A to 2 element SteppIR at 65ft (same tower) + 160 OCF wire
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