[3830] ARRL 10 N6WG SO Mixed QRP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: N6WG
Operator(s): N6WG
Station: N6WG

Class: SO Mixed QRP
QTH: Newark CA
Operating Time (hrs): 17

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  55     3
  SSB:  10     1
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Total:  65     4  Total Score = 960

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

What a way to waste a weekend.  This was just plain
brutal.  Except for three CO and one AZ QSO, I never got
out of CA.  What's worse, didn't hear anything else outside
of CA either.  Real bummer.  Let's see, 65 QSOs divided by
17 hours gives a rate a bit less than 4 QSOs per hour.
Thank goodness I didn't have to give up any sleeping
hours for this contest.
 
I put up three 10m bisquares at roughly 60 degrees from
each other to give all around coverage, but never really
got a chance to try them out.  They might as well have
been three different dummy loads for all the good they
did me.  They look really good on paper, and I was real
eager to use them on the air.

While CQing for hours this weekend, I managed to work my
way through three volumes of Pat Hawker's RSGB TechTopics
notebooks.  Found some interesting ideas to play with later.
 
With SFI in the 80s, I sure expected better.  Guess there
is still too much I don't know about propagation :-)
Anyway, I hope you all did better than I did.
Hope to work you in another contest soon.
73, Bob N6WG
The Little Station with Attitude


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