[3830] CQWW SSB K4ZW(@NR4M) SOAB HP
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Mon Oct 29 08:28:56 EST 2007
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K4ZW
Operator(s): K4ZW
Station: NR4M
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 47
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 45 9 27
80: 289 20 80
40: 462 25 85
20: 1162 34 113
15: 1078 25 99
10: 79 12 29
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Total: 3115 125 433 Total Score = 4,888,638
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
A lot of work this summer & fall has gone into what we affectionately call the
Goat Farm. Steve (NR4M) has no goats. The name comes from another 2-word
phrase that starts with goat but doesn’t end in farm. But I digress. This
spring about 2 hours into WPX CW I blew out my 40 meter beam. With all the
work to be done at the farm and with other work to be done in our group, we
have not gotten around to fixing it. That was kind of the plan anyway. Spend
the energy building up the farm and operate WW SSB from there. Certainly not
for a lack of trying on our part, but we just were not able to get the 4-square
for 80 meters up in time. So the weekend before WW SSB K4HR & I retuned the 80
meter inverted V @100’ for SSB, put up a reflector element behind it, and
declared it an 80 meter beam. If anyone wants to see pictures of the big 40
meter tower going up, K4EC posted them at
http://picasaweb.google.com/k4ec.frank/NR4M40MeterTowerAntennas I think it’s
best run in the slideshow mode. Here’s the antenna line up at the farm, so
far:
160 – single “T†element with 4 ground mounted radials (just ran out of
time for more)
80 – as described above with another inverted V @ 70’ facing east/west
40 – 4/4 OWA design at 100’ & 190’
20 – 5/5/5/5 OWA design at 40’/80’/120’/160’ ( I think each beam has
various pieces of element(s) missing or bent. We're eventually going to
rebuild the stack with larger schedule elements. But operating with it, you
would never know)
15 – 5/5/5 @ 40’/80’/120’
10 – KT36 @ 70’
RX – one reversible beverage heading NE/SW
Overall I’m satisfied with the results but I did expect to hit 5 million
based on my calculations after day one. More Q’s this year but less mults.
I had an absolute blast with the new station. Friday was a real roller coaster
of a day. I was taking a shower in the morning and noticed the water pressure
getting very low. Yup the well pump went out. While checking the circuit
breaker, I noticed the breaker for the septic pump was tripped. Turn it on. It
hummed and snapped right back off. Double whammy! No lightning strike or
anything like that. Just bad luck. Called the plumber and they said they
would be out around noon. 2:30 rolls around, the plumber still hasn’t
arrived so I say to my wife, “honey I need to go.†We still had some small
things to finish at the farm. While finishing set-up, I just about destroy my
Writelog SO2R box trying to fix a broken ground problem on one of the audio
jacks. It’s an hour before the contest and I don’t have SO2R capabilities.
I’m sick to my stomach at this point. All the work we put into the farm, the
push to get ready for WW SSB, and I might not be able to take full advantage of
it because of a small circuit board with a couple of broken audio jacks, which
was my doing. Manage a “GF†fix (there’s those two words again) and
I’m back in business. Thanks to K3NC for bringing his box over but
thankfully I didn’t need it. Never managed to get a pre-contest nap.
Sometimes life happens.
Ken K4ZW
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 32/18 7/9 17/13 4/5 60/45 60/45
D1-0100Z - - 26/13 39/26 3/1 - 68/40 128/85
D1-0200Z - 41/27 13/7 3/0 - - 57/34 185/119
D1-0300Z - 42/11 17/6 5/2 - - 64/19 249/138
D1-0400Z 10/10 38/11 5/2 - - - 53/23 302/161
D1-0500Z 7/4 8/1 19/5 1/2 - - 35/12 337/173
D1-0600Z - 9/7 22/5 1/0 - - 32/12 369/185
D1-0700Z - 13/9 49/14 - - - 62/23 431/208
D1-0800Z --+-- 6/1 80/5 1/1 --+-- --+-- 87/7 518/215
D1-0900Z 2/1 8/6 50/4 - - - 60/11 578/226
D1-1000Z - 1/0 10/9 3/5 - - 14/14 592/240
D1-1100Z - - - 92/29 6/8 - 98/37 690/277
D1-1200Z - - - 73/5 67/24 - 140/29 830/306
D1-1300Z - - - 6/2 202/14 - 208/16 1038/322
D1-1400Z - - - 38/4 63/3 2/0 103/7 1141/329
D1-1500Z - - - 48/5 71/5 - 119/10 1260/339
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 13/0 91/8 6/5 110/13 1370/352
D1-1700Z - - - 62/2 18/2 1/1 81/5 1451/357
D1-1800Z - - - 82/5 10/6 2/3 94/14 1545/371
D1-1900Z - - - 68/3 20/11 - 88/14 1633/385
D1-2000Z - - - 81/1 - 29/12 110/13 1743/398
D1-2100Z - - - 90/0 3/0 9/3 102/3 1845/401
D1-2200Z - 1/1 - 20/5 14/8 - 35/14 1880/415
D1-2300Z 2/3 - - 31/10 - - 33/13 1913/428
D2-0000Z --+-- 16/5 --+-- 2/0 --+-- --+-- 18/5 1931/433
D2-0100Z 5/3 3/2 13/6 - - - 21/11 1952/444
D2-0200Z 7/8 - 10/2 1/0 - - 18/10 1970/454
D2-0300Z 1/1 10/4 11/0 - - - 22/5 1992/459
D2-0400Z - 13/3 9/3 - - - 22/6 2014/465
D2-0500Z 2/1 29/7 1/1 - - - 32/9 2046/474
D2-0600Z 6/3 39/3 - - - - 45/6 2091/480
D2-0700Z - 3/0 49/3 - - - 52/3 2143/483
D2-0800Z --+-- 3/0 32/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 35/1 2178/484
D2-0900Z - 3/2 2/0 - - - 5/2 2183/486
48
D2-1000Z 1/0 2/0 8/5 2/1 - - 13/6 2196/492
D2-1100Z - - 4/1 50/0 6/2 - 60/3 2256/495
D2-1200Z - - - 6/1 91/1 - 97/2 2353/497
D2-1300Z - - - 4/0 123/0 - 127/0 2480/497
D2-1400Z - - - - 130/2 3/3 133/5 2613/502
D2-1500Z - - - 8/3 97/4 - 105/7 2718/509
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 3/0 24/2 --+-- 27/2 2745/511
D2-1700Z - - - 57/2 4/1 - 61/3 2806/514
D2-1800Z - - - 65/4 3/3 4/1 72/8 2878/522
D2-1900Z - - - 61/3 - 13/6 74/9 2952/531
D2-2000Z - - - 45/5 2/1 5/2 52/8 3004/539
D2-2100Z - - - 47/5 5/1 1/0 53/6 3057/545
D2-2200Z - - - 22/3 8/4 - 30/7 3087/552
D2-2300Z 2/2 1/0 - 25/4 - - 28/6 3115/558
Total: 45/36 289/100 462/1101162/1471078/124 79/41
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