[3830] ARRLDX CW W4ZV SOSB/160 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: W4ZV
Operator(s): W4ZV
Station: W4ZV

Class: SOSB/160 HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  312    74
   80:           
   40:           
   20:           
   15:           
   10:           
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Total:  312    74  Total Score = 69,264

Club: Carolina DX Association

Comments:

Yes Virginia, this was North Carolina and not VY2ZM...sadly!

We had fair conditions but QRN from a large thunderstorm cell moving across the
southern US made for difficult copy on the weaker signals.  Sometimes I had to
give up and move on so my apologies if you called and I was "deaf".  We
fortunately had a slight break in the QRN Sunday morning which did allow a few
JAs and JD1BLY to make it through at sunrise.  

This was my first real contest for the K3 after some shakedown issues in the
Stew Perry.  I never heard any IMD products the entire weekend even though I
used it with the preamp on the first night to try to induce some.  The 200 Hz
roofing filter came in handy a few times with non-stop callers in simplex
pileups...LT1F's was memorable.  "W4?"...(pileup)..."W4Z?"...(pileup)...and so
on for ~10 minutes.  :-)  Other K3s worked were VP6DX, F5VJC and SM0MDG.

Thanks to all for the QSOs and especially for your patience as I struggled in
the QRN.  

73,  Bill W4ZV


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