[3830] W1VE ARRL DX SSB M/M

[Gerry Hull]

                 ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 1998


      Call: W1VE (@K1TTT)            Country:  United States
      Mode: SSB                      Category: Multi Multi

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES


      160       62      183   3.0       38
       80      287      855   3.0       73
       40      309      927   3.0       84
       20     1668     5001   3.0      124
       15     1112     3327   3.0      131
       10      191      570   3.0       44
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     Totals   3629    10863   3.0      494  =   5,366,322



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

Operator List: W1VE, K1TTT, K1EP, WA1ZAM, N1GA(OK1DIX), WT2Q, KA1CI

Equipment Description:
	Operated from Superstation K1TTT in Peru, MA
	See http://www.berkshire.net/~robbins/overview.html for a complete
	description.	

Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

A fun contest!  First time I've used my new call in a big sideband contest. 
"Victor Echo" flows pretty well on SSB.   Conditions on 15 were super -- 
lots of QRM, though.  We were using a TS-870; probably should have had an 
FT1000MP on that band instead of 40M.  Held a frequency on the low end of 15 
for quite some time.  When rate got too low, went up to about .375 and had 
some of the best runs of the contest. 160 was pretty much full of noise on the 
second night.  The 160 Inverted-L was creating trash on 80, even @ 100W output!  
Seened to get better later in the evening.  Had some good runs on 40 Sunday 
afternoon/evening.  Thanks to the HB9 who pointed out some good tx frequencies!

Thanks to all the crew for a superb effort.  With only 4 full time ops is its pretty
hard to keep m/m going!  Thanks Dave for again being a super host.  Sunday night
the rain started to pour -- went outside and found 1/4" of ice on my truck -- glad
the ice was localized to Dave's high QTH.

I'll be putting both the CW and SSB logs online at http://www.inetmarket.com/w1ve
in the next few days.  If ARRL accepted electronic QSLs for award credit, would do 
that also! (See an example of that for the 1996 VB9DH CQWW SSB at 
http://www.inetmarket.com/ve9dh/qsl.htm)

73,

-Gerry
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