[3830] RAC Winter VA3NR SOAB LP

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                    RAC Winter Contest

Call: VA3NR
Operator(s): VA3NR
Station: VA3NR

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: ON
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  CW Mults  Ph Mults
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  160:   71     26       7         3
   80:  123     97       9         8
   40:   92     78      10        10
   20:   58     74      10         9
   15:   18     21       6         4
   10:                              
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Total:  362    296      42        34  Total Score = 391,096

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Comments:

Had fun and learned a few things.  Plan was to beat my personal best from '98
and made more QSO's but fell short on mults.  I knew what to expect from the
high bands but I was hoping for more from 40-160.  High noise level much of the
time prevented a more competitive score.  There's always next time.

Usually the station is fairly reliable but I had a couple equipment issues.  I
added microphone switching to my SO2R setup.  It tested fine in the week before
the contest but on Friday I couldn't get decent audio out of it.  So the second
rig was good only for a few interleaved CW QSOs.  The other problem was the
tuner I put at the base of my 160M inverted-L to use it on 80M started to become
intermittent due to weather.  Had to resort to using the HF6V on 80 which has at
least 10-20 dB worse S/N.

Anyway, enough excuses.  It was still fun and I appreciate all the QSO's.  Quite
happy to exchange greetings with all the usual suspects. C U often in 2005! 

Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!

Chris, VA3NR.

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[Mark-V Field, FT840, 40M Inverted-V at 30', 160M Inverted-L, Butternut HF6V
Vertical]
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Hour        Q/Mults  Cumm   

D1-0000Z    58/8     58/8   
D1-0100Z    55/6     113/14  
D1-0200Z    34/6     147/20  
D1-0300Z    38/6     185/26  
D1-0400Z    33/2     218/28  
D1-0500Z    29/2     247/30  
D1-0600Z    34/1     281/31  
D1-0700Z    15/2     296/33  
D1-0800Z    1/0      297/33  
D1-0900Z    0/0      297/33
D1-1000Z    0/0      297/33 
D1-1100Z    0/0      297/33 
D1-1200Z    3/2      300/35  
D1-1300Z    28/8     328/43  
D1-1400Z    55/5     383/48  
D1-1500Z    34/7     417/55  
D1-1600Z    54/10    471/65  
D1-1700Z    22/5     493/70  
D1-1800Z    32/1     525/71  
D1-1900Z    30/0     555/71  
D1-2000Z    19/0     574/71  
D1-2100Z    30/3     604/74  
D1-2200Z    21/1     625/75  
D1-2300Z    33/1     658/76


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