[3830] ARRL DX SSB VA3RU M/S HP 1R

[VA3RU]

ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- *2002*


      Call: VA3RU             Section or Country:  ON
      Mode: PHONE                       Category: M/S

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS    COUNTRIES


      160       0                0
       80      46               35
       40     133               55
       20     627               91
       15    1095              104
       10     859              105
     --------------------------------------

     Totals  2781  8304       392  =   3,255,168


OP:  George - VE3NZ (day time), Lali - VA3RU (night time)


RIG: TS930S + Dentron 160-10L, A4S and wires.

Hello,

Our first Multi Single effort. It went pretty good and we enjoyed the contest very much. 
Specially because of the very interesting and sometimes rapidly changing CONDX.
The 160 m ant has decided to go down 150KHz in frequency and in the heavy rain I couldn't fix it
just screched my head how is that possible. So 160m was out. The 80m RX ant switch went in smoke right
at the first push of the foot switch. So 80m wasn't so good either. I am writing these just to 
show we still have some more potential for the next time. 
My highlight of the contest was when R1ANC called on 20m, the next call was from VK0LW (never wrkd VK0
before...), the next was EL2AR. Few minutes later turned the ant to North and VK0LW called again 
asked me to go to 40m(7153). I tried very hard, my head was inside the radio, I was one big ear 
but unfortunately did not hear a thing. Almost felt guilty not been able to pull out his signals.
All in all great fun with very good CONDX.

73

Lali  VA3RU
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