[3830] CQWW CW W5KFT M/2 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: W5KFT
Operator(s): K5PI, N1XS, W5TA
Station: W5KFT

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 44

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   22     8       13
   80:  202    21       84
   40:  536    34      118
   20:  584    34      118
   15:  276    26       92
   10:   37    10       20
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Total: 1657   133      445  Total Score = 2,483,088

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

K5OT got the turkey day bug, so it was N1XS, W5TA, and me.  We decided to do
M/2, but it wasn’t certain we’d have full operator coverage.  We were off the
air for a few hours Saturday morning because of a storm and because of technical
difficulties, and had only had one station on for a few hours as well.

We started with one AL-1500 and one of my FL-2100s that would only do about
300W.  In the wee hours of Saturday morning, we heard a loud POP! and the
AL-1500 blew both fuses.  We tried some troubleshooting, but it was clearly out
of the game.  

We did get a second FL-2100 on line at 600W.  We had a few other technical
difficulties, but worked through those pretty well.

I ran 20M on Sunday morning, and had a blast with virtually no unanswered CQs
for two and a half hours.  80 was awesome for us, too.  We worked most of our
80M mults with 300W.  Thanks Chris and Dick and of course Bryan – let’s do it
again soon!

Robert K5PI


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