ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K4EA
Operator(s): K4EA
Station: K4EA
Class: SOAB HP ASSISTED
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 38 hrs
Summary:
Band Qs Pts Cty
1.8 98 285 56
3.5 196 588 75
7 398 1149 94
14 467 1401 89
21 589 1767 101
28 46 138 29
Total 1791 5373 444
Score: 2,385,612
The European signals on 160 and 80 were great! Many were S9 plus. The
biggest frustration I had, was trying to work Caribbean/South America
and Asia stations off the sides of the 20M wire beam (pointed NE). This
hurt the multiplier count on 20. When I got on 15M Saturday morning,
the line noise was so bad I went back to 20. The noise finally calmed
down several hours later, but I had lost the early propagation into
Russia and west Asia. I had a good run into JA but no SE Asia. Sunday,
the rain had reduced the noise and I was able to run on 15 reasonably
well. 10M perked up and even managed a couple of Africa and Oceana
stations. I did manage NL7Z on scatter with the antenna over the
pacific.
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