[3830] K9MA ARRL DX CW, SOHP

[Scott Ellington]

K9MA  1998 ARRL CW DX Contest

Single operator, unassisted, 1.5 KW:

Band    QSO       Mults

160      50        32
 80     110        47
 40     153        54
 20     607        80
 15     486        75
 10      42        24

Tot    1448       312      Score:   1,355,328

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Equipment:  FT-1000D, AL-82, SB-220

Antennas:  TH-7 at 21 M, 40 M rotatable dipole at 23 M, tower shunt fed 
           on 80 and 160.  Phased RX loops for 80 and 160. 
           Small city lot.

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Comments:

High point was working VK6VZ on 160.

It always surprises me to come across rare multipliers like
7X2RO and 9X0A in the clear, while just up the band everyone
is banging their heads together over something more common.

Nice to see some sunspot activity again.  Conditions were a bit strange,
though.  15 and 20 never really opened up enough to hear all those
indoor dipoles, but 160 was in great shape the first night.  The low
bands were very noisy the second night, not the typical static crashes but
some other kind of atmospheric/ionospheric noise.

No equipment failures.  The FT-1000D started and finished slightly 
broken.  



-- 
73,

Scott  K9MA
sdelling at facstaff.wisc.edu

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