[3830] ARRLDX CW N3RS M/2 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: N3RS
Operator(s): N2SR, N3ED, N3NA, N3RD, N3RS, W8FJ
Station: N3RS

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  108    53
   80:  701    87
   40: 1259   113
   20: 1658   116
   15:  214    80
   10:   10     5
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Total: 3950   454  Total Score = 5,375,814

Club: 

Comments:

A terrible weekend here.  Congrats to the K1AR and WE3C groups and also to the
others that braved the crappy conditions.  Family issues had me in a poor state
of mind entering this contest, but it only got worse as time went on.  We lost
half of our automatic band switching station when one of the ACOM's died just
before the contest.  That forced us to manually bandswitch one side of that
part of the station.  Our main 20M amp blew on the first day, leaving us to the
backup 76PA.  

N2SR and I spent much of Friday evening trying trying to repair the Alpha 89
amp in vain.  Then one of the 20M computers crapped out, leaving us short
handed to have a fully functional station network.  I spent several hours late
Friday evening/early Saturday morning trying to get it running.  We had to
resort to moving computers around as the bands opened/closed on 20M & 40M.  My
son came over on Saturday morning and helped me get that computer running.  We
finally had to resort to reformatting the HD and reloading XP.  Finally got it
working early evening on Saturday.

Conditions were about as bad as they get, short of an explosion on the sun.  In
54 years of contesting I can only remember one time that was worse and that was
in the late 50's when we had a total blackout followed by a period that only
permitted QSO's via backscatter from the aurora.  That was in a sweepstakes
contest.  We hope to do better in the SSB contest and look forward to some
freckles on the sun. 

73 de Sig


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