[3830] CQWW SSB AA1K SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: AA1K
Operator(s): AA1K
Station: AA1K

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Delaware
Operating Time (hrs): 43

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   91    12       40
   80:  234    15       62
   40:  200    21       75
   20: 1401    34      122
   15:  768    34      103
   10:   82    16       42
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Total: 2776   132      444  Total Score = 4,450,752

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Great conditions overall -- even a fair European opening on 10 meters Sunday
morning. 

The 20-meter 3-stack of 204BAs on a 30-meter tower worked well to separate
signals coming in at various wave-angles. The high-angle combo of top and bottom
antennas and the single bottom often made western European and VE signals really
stand out from the crowd, or null out QRM from other stations near the
frequency.

The 40-meter 3-el HyGain yagi rotated fine the first few hours but when I moved
it south and then tried to bring it back on Europe (45 degrees heading), it
would only come back to due East. Took the spotlight out and it looked like a
2-meter yagi above it had tilted and snagged the 40-meter boom guy-wire support.
So the 40-meter stayed due East the rest of the weekend.

Late Saturday afternoon I had some S-9 line noise from the north on 20 and 15
meters. This must be a real noise generator since the only power lines that
direction are at least a mile away. No doubt lost some JA and other Asian Q's
while this persisted. Something else to track down.

Station details at www.aa1k.us.


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