96 CQWW SSB SO/LP/UNASST

[Rob Hummel]

                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996

      Call: WS1A                     Country:  United States
      Mode: SSB                      Category: Single Operator/Low
Power/Unassisted

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES
      160        4        6     1.50      2       2
       80       30       64     2.13      9      17
       40       56      142     2.54     14      38
       20      226      648     2.87     19      76
       15      230      647     2.81     20      75
       10       33       87     2.64      7      12
     ---------------------------------------------------
     Totals    579     1594     2.75     71     220  =>  463,854

All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.

Equipment Description:

A retro contest. Having just moved to a new contest-optimized QTH, I've not
had time to get up all my decent antennas, etc. Top that off with the fact
that my Icom 765 broke a few days before the contest. So here's what we used.

Antennas:
  tribander @ 50' on house-mounted tower.
  40/80m trap dipole at 50'

Rig:
  Icom 720
  Due to age of rig, that meant no DVK, Heil boomset, automatic antenna
tuner, keypad frequency entry, computer interface for automatic split, etc.

At least I didn't have to dip the grid or swap crystals. In retrospect, I
don't know how I ever survived as a 75W rock-bound novice.
 Rob Hummel (WS1A) <rhummel at monad.net>


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