Spent most of the week getting up a new 20m wire EDZ yagi. Did not
finish the switching until after the contest started and was just too
bushed to do any contesting Friday night. The wire yagi worked very
well as I was holding Q rates of 150 to 200 for several hours. The
front end of my Omni 6 Plus was overloaded with strong signals on
20m, so switched to my IC-781, which handled the environment with no
problems. The filtering in the IC-781 is much sharper than in the
Plus. The operator just ran out of gas for most of the weekend.
Getting 'older'...???
Never heard so many 100 watters and QRP'ers before on 20m!
CONTEST: ARRL DX CONTEST
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH
MODE: CW
CALLSIGN: W4BQF
CLAIMED-SCORE: 263835
CLUB: South East Contest Club
OPERATORS: W4BQF
NAME: Tom Alderman
ADDRESS: 498 Nichols Lane
ADDRESS: Hahira, GA. 31632
SOAPBOX: IC-781/Titan 3
SOAPBOX: 80m Dipole/2 el 20m EDZ wire yagi
SOAPBOX: Time = 18 hours
CREATED-BY: YPlog 4.48
EMAIL ADDRESS: w4bqf at arrl.net
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SCORE SUMMARY
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SCORE = 263835
POINTS = 2145
MULTIPLIERS = 123
BAND QSO'S DUPS POINTS MULTIPLIERS SCORE
---- ----- ---- ------ -----------
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160 0 0 0 0
0
80 26 0 78 16
1248
40 65 0 195 34
6630
20 610 0 1824 61
111264
15 16 0 48 12
576
10 0 0 0 0
0
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TOT: 717 0 2145 123 263835
Tom - W4BQF
Eastern suburbs of Cecil, Ga.
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