[3830] ARRLDX CW ZF2NT M/S HP

[zf2nt@candw.ky]

                     ARRL DX Contest, CW
                    
Call: ZF2NT
Operator(s): N6NT, N6XI
Station: ZF2NT

Class: M/S HP
QTH: LCM
Operating Time (hrs): 48
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:    354     50
   80:    607     54
   40:    784     58
   20:   1018     59
   15:   1141     58
   10:   1162     59
----------------------
Total:   5066    338  =  513,854

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

We went into this one expecting it to be the great Caribbean M/S shoot-out, and 
we weren't disappointed.  Will & Jim on 8P, Andy and Carl on P4, Goose & gang 
on PJ2...and Rick and me here on Little Cayman.  Rick (N6XI) was my secret 
weapon, because he is very good at making sense out of the stuff sent by those 
old guys on a straight key that sounds to me like nothing but RFI getting into 
the keyer.  I also thought I had the inside track with VY1JA, who was supposed 
to find us Sunday afternoon for a triple mult.  He didn't, alas, but it seems 
he did find our competition!  All I can say is...congratulations to K4MA and 
AA4NC on a super job.  They beat is the right way:  they simply out-operated 
us.  A fantastic showing there from 8P9JA.

The bands were great, as everybody has noted, but the people weren't.  You 
expect to see real low rates at 3 a.m. Sunday morning, but then again on Sunday 
afternoon???  I sure hope the ARRL has some exciting tricks up their sleeve to 
drum up interest on their contests, after they stop publishing results, but I'm 
not holding my breath.  Maybe it's time to consider making this one a 24 hour 
contest?  I'd vote for that one.

Equipment:  Bencher Skyhawk (tribander) at 65', 40m wire dipole at 50', 
inverted V for 80 and 160 with peak at about 60'.  It sure would have been nice 
to have that 3 el 40 beam Jim & Will had.  But it's interesting to note that we 
didn't suffer on the low bands, despite such puny antennas, but rather fell 
back on 10 and 15.  We're simply too close to FL down here, and as everybody 
knows most of the good CW ops in the US have now retired and moved to FL.


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