[3830] ARRLDX CW K1VR SOAB LP

hopengarten@post.harvard.edu hopengarten@post.harvard.edu
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:11:37 -0500 (EST)


                     ARRL DX Contest, CW
                    
Call: K1VR
Operator(s): K1VR
Station: K1VR

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 34.3
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:     36     27
   80:    151     53
   40:    401     66
   20:    386     69
   15:    407     79
   10:    629     78
----------------------
Total:   2010    372  =  2,243,160

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Summary of failures (with contest time cost in minutes to diagnose and repair):

1.	Took three hours to get batch file to run. Started contest 25 minutes late. 
(25)
2.	Motor start capacitor for High TH6DXX died of old age. Replaced. (20)
3.	Spacebar key for Run station. Tried to open up and clean. Wouldn't work
	when I reassembled it. Replaced keyboard. (25)
4.	Bencher paddle snapped while trying to straighten it. Fixed with 
		fiberglass packing tape. (15)
5.	Flourescent light above operating table died. Broke fixture end 			while 
trying to replace 4' lightbulb. (15)
6.	Low TH7DXX rotated West and stuck. Had to climb tower to see problem, get 
	ladder, climb and cut. (45)

Estimate of Total Time Lost: 2 hours 25 minutes.

Run Station:
	FT-1000MP, CW Sendin’ Machine, Brown Bros. Paddle
Mult Station:
	IC-765, CW Sending’ Machine, Bencher Paddle
Antennas:
160: FVR Spitfire
  80: 2 el. Vertical phased array
  40: Cushcraft 40-2CD, 4 el. Vertical phased array
20-10:
TH6DXX @ 97’, TH6DXX@ 61’ (rotatable on side-mount), TH7DX @31’ (fixed on EU)
TH7DX @ 36’ on separate tower 55’ away
Six directions of Beverages with three wires.


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