[3830] W6XR MS CQWW CW

Natan Huffman force12e at lightlink.com
Sat Dec 5 15:47:17 EST 1998



                               CQ WW SUMMARY SHEET


    Contest Dates : 28-Nov-98, 29-Nov-98


    Callsign Used : W6XR
        Operators : W6XR N2AU

         Category : MS HP

 Default Exchange : 599 05

             Name : Natan Huffman
          Address : 27 Hungerford Rd,
   City/State/Zip : Ithaca/NY/14850
          Country : United States


        Team/Club : FRC


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Countries   Zones
 ___________________________________________________________

  160CW       35          35         81        25        14
   80CW      115         112        294        56        17
   40CW      478         477       1362        90        32
   20CW      559         558       1630       107        35
   15CW      469         466       1317        91        32
   10CW      559         558       1603        94        31
 ___________________________________________________________

 Totals     2215        2206       6287       463       161


    Final Score = 3923088 points.


Commentary:


    You really can't say anything about this one without starting with the
propagation!   The contest was held during the best propagation I have ever
heard in over 30 years of contesting.  So many choices to make.  In
retrospect, you just went to the rate and did your best.  The only
propagation story I will share is that I still found Europe coming in well
on 40 at 9:00 AM local, which means a 40 meter path of complete
illumination......that's
good stuff!

    Did this year's CQWW CW with my friend Art, N2AU, who was just
remarkable.  His skills are much fun to see and he seemed to have a good
time also.  We found ourselves laughing much, at ourselves, and at having so
much fun.  You had to be there!

    We were unable to make the needed changes to the station to support MS
operation, so we were burdened with the single op 2 radio setup.  Had
problems holding the cluster as clustering in this part of Western NY is
indeed an iffy thing.  Only one computer glitch marred an otherwise perfect
hardware weekend.  I must find a faster way to key in the callsigns as too
much time is being lost on my part.  Found myself becoming mentally fatigued
very early, so MS is definitely the way to go.

    Once again, we enjoyed the fray and look forward to the ARRL.

73,

Natan W6XR/2

Station description:

FT1000MP, ALPHA 86

FT920, ALPHA 374

TR LOG

160 -----Beta version of 160 1/4 wave vertical with 4 elevated radials (did
not spend enough time here)

 80 ------Rotatable EF180B dipole at 82' (did not spend nearly enough time
on this band, but I slept well)

 40 -------EF240X  at 75'

 20/15/10  Stacked C3 at 85 and 45'

 10 -------4 el monobander at 85'   (only made 8 Qs on this antenna as stack
was better this weekend)




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