N9CO ARRL DX CW Score

[Charlie Ocker]

	Hrs	QSOs	Mults	Score
	---	----	-----	-----
N9CO	20	459	168	230,328		SO, LP, All Band, Unassisted,
						Illinois

	Band	QSO	Mult
	----	---	----
	160	 11	 10	Half Sloper <--+
	 80	 66	 36	Half Sloper    +-- single feedline
	 40	 83	 43	Half Sloper <--+
	 20	260	 55	TH6 @ 55'
	 15	 39	 24	TH6 @ 55'
	 10	  0	  0	TH6 @ 55'
	 
Planned to operate more, but had to battle with Murphy instead.  My rotator 
broke a while back, and has been stuck at EU ever since.  I was able to borrow a 
replacement from N9QEL.  My 930 died last Tuesday.  Spent Wednesday trying to 
repair it, and determined that it wouldn't be done in time for the contest.  I 
was able to borrow a FT1000 from N9BR on Thursday.  Nice rig, will be tough to 
go back to the 930.

Decided to take advantage of mild midwest winter weather to replace rotator on 
Saturday afternoon.  WX was sunny, little wind, temp was a balmy 27 degrees or 
so.  Perfect for tower work.  Well, about as good as it gets around here in 
Feburary.  I figured that the loss of about 3 hours of operating time on 
Saturday would well be worth the extra mults that I could pick up on Sunday with 
an antenna that I could actually turn.  Things on the tower going quite well 
until replacement rotator fell from tool bucket at 50' and landed in snow bank 
at base of tower.  Just missed concrete base.  Visual inspection of rotator 
(Ham-IV) revealed busted terminal strip.  Won't know about other possible damage 
until it is taken apart.

Thanks for all the QSO's.  I still had a great time operating.

73,

Charlie  N9CO	ocker at chasind.com

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