[3830] W7WHY CQWW SSB Test

[Tom Osborne]

1998 CQWW DX TEST 


   Callsign: W7WHY                   
   Country:  United States
   Mode: SSB                      
   Class: SO/HP

      BAND     QSO's    PTS    ZONES  COUNTRIES


      160        0        0      0       0  Inverted "L"
       80        0        0      0       0  Dipole at 80 feet
       40        4        6      3       3  3 phased verticals
       20       75      218     14      35  Homebrew 3 el. monobander
       15       67      188     17      26  Homebrew 2 el monobander
       10       30       83     11      12  Single delta loop
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     Totals    176      495    45      76  =>  59,895



All exchanges were 59(9).

Equipment Description: FT-840, FL-2100B (sometimes)

Soapbox:   Boy, Murphy struck with a vengence this weekend.  
           Started out pretty well Friday night, but when I got up Sat.
           morning, things changed.  The rotor was stuck to JA, and 
           couldn't get it to turn.  Finally found a broken rotator 
           wire about halfway up the tower.  Fixed that and then the
amp            wouldn't work.  Everytime I got up to about 250 watts,
it               would trip out and shut down.  Then the tuned input on
20               quit working.  SWR was 5 to 1 and and adjusting it made
no              difference.  Also found a grid bypass cap on one of the
tubes            went south. Got that all back together, then I found
that I             had no grid bias.  At that point I said to heck (or
words of            that nature) with it and quit.  Everything worked
perfectly             all week before the contest.  Oh well, there's
always next            year!!
          


Club Affiliation: Southern Oregon DX Asc. (SODA)

I operated without cheating and followed all the rules.

Tom W7WHY

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