[3830] CQ WW RTTY PJ7/K7ZUM SOAB QRP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY

Call: PJ7/K7ZUM
Operator(s): K7ZUM
Station: PJ7/K7ZUM

Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: Sint Maarten
Operating Time (hrs): 39

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   State/Prov  DX   Zones
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   80:   59   121       20      21     9
   40:  359   831       39      57    17
   20:  447   961       45      69    25
   15:  425   894       38      65    20
   10:   67    94       22       7     6
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Total: 1357  2901      164     219    77  Total Score = 1,334,460

Club: Willamette Valley DX Club

Comments:

Left Portland Ore on the red eye flight wednesday night, with another
suit-case
DX-ped, and my ole trusty single Butternut vertical, was in ST. Maarten thursday
afternoon headed to a new place I had never been to before, and hoped the
property owners would not object to much to my "Contest Activities". Met the
owners and discussed what I was going to do, they seemed ok with it, till I
started laying out coax and radials, that's when they flipped the flippers !!
the several dozen radials I had planned on using, ended up being only 12 radials
!! and they were all pretty much headed to europe ! so after I was done
laying down what I could, the owners inspected my work, and could not find where
I put the wire down, and were happy with the single run of about 150 ft of
coax.
they seemed happy about the single butternut vertical that I put up on the
beach, and with that, left me alone for the rest of the weekend.
set the station up on a kitchen counter and sat on bar stools with pillow
padding ( it still was not enough, !) hard wired the amp into a 30 amp
breaker,
turned everything on and was ready to go, gave everything a test about five
hours before the test, it was a go !
       Started the test on 20 meters, an hour later was wondering where
everybody went to ! 20 meters just died !! finished the night out on 40 and 80
hit the sack at about 2:45 in the morning, Was up by 6:30 ready to go,
by 9:00 in the morning, knew I was in trouble, as the cold I had hoped would go
away before I left town, flared up, and was sick for the rest of the weekend,
including several visits by Montezuma taking more of his revenge out on me !!
at times I would get no answers to my CQ's, or my S&P calls, so I would go
outside and check to see it the wind blew my butternut into the sea !! but it
was always there, just bad conditions ! by sundown saturday night, I had
excately 4 Q's in the log on 10 meters !! And I made it a point to go up to ten
every hour, call several screens worth of c.q's and get no answer, only heard
the same 4 stations all day long ! Finished the the evening out on 40 and 80
mtrs, and had what I thought was a good run of Euro's on 80.
          Was up at 6:30 in the morning ready to go again, seen VR2BG'S call go
across my screen, and called and called, but Brett was busy working a wall of
europeans,had pretty good runs on 20 and 15, including a nice run on 10 mtrs of
63 q's starting at 15:45 to 16:30, and that was the end of Ten meters, it just
died after that ! by 21:30 gmt, I had enough, as not only was the cold giving me
fits, through out the day Sunday, I could only sit or stand for an hour or less
at a time, then it was go lay down on the bed for 10 or 15 minutes and let my
aching back stretch out ! ( I am finding out the same thing Hank, KR7X is
finding out, this ole body just can't sit in a chair for that long a period of
time anymore ! ouch !) All in all, I had a great time, was hoping for a bit of a
higher score, but considering all I had was a single butternut vertical sticking
up on the beach, and a dozen radials, I'll settle for what I have, and next
year, pray for more SPOTS !!

thanks to everybody for all of the contacts, had fun 

73..... Ken.....PJ7/K7ZUM


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