[3830] NA Sprint SSB K3CR(WA3FET) HP

[jimb at psu.edu]

                     NA Sprint - SSB
                    
Call: K3CR
Operator: WA3FET
Station: K3CR

Power: HP
QTH: PA
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Op Time
----------------------
   80:     93   93
   40:    103   103
   20:    100   100
----------------------
Total:    296 Qs   43 Mults =  12,728

Club/Team: NCC

Comments:

This was my 2nd Sprint ever and I have to admit that it was not as much
fun as the one last Fall.  When I got here on Saturday afternoon to check
stuff out and get things ready, I noticed that the top 20M OWA Yagi at 180
ft in the 3 stack was about 20 degrees off.  We had just replaced the rotator
for this with a new Yaesu 2800 in late October and it is just over 3 months 
old.
Well it was not only off but it now doesn't turn the whole way and it would
not go thru west.  This was not a big factor in this since I have the other
Yagi's in the stack to turn but it was a really depressing thing to have this
go bad right before this.

The next item that went bad is that something has changed in our system in that
a bad hum appeared in both of the FT1000-MP's headphone lines through the NA 
box
we have built for SO2R for use with NA.  I tried to change stuff around but
could not find the problem and operated this contest with a bad hum the whole 
time.
	
The hum was in the transmit audio too and things were not right with this and 
noise in there.  I think I am going to just change everything and go with audio 
isolation transformers for all audio paths now and hopefully never be bothered 
with hum ground loops again in the future.

With this and not really feeling too good, I did this, but really didn't have 
my normal contest enthusiasm in this one.  I really wanted to break 300 and get 
more mults. I believe an experienced operator in this could probably make 
top-ten from this station if everything works and that will be my goal in this 
too.

I look forward to the next one and will get things fixed and get back my 
enthusiasm the next time.

For CW, NI3S, Eric, will run the station and he is now a new Freshman here at 
Penn State and hopefully he can take a lot of Contesting classes like our most 
recent graduate, Jim, KB3AFT, did when he was here at K3CR.

73 and hope that you all work K3CR next weekend.

Jim WA3FET


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