[3830] ARRLDX SSB KB1H M/2 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: KB1H
Operator(s): AA1CE, K1EBY, KB1DFB, KB1H, KB1NRB, KE1LI, NB1U, W1TJL, W1UJ
Station: KB1H

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   64    45
   80:  233    75
   40:  329    84
   20: 1426   128
   15:  187    58
   10:   27    10
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Total: 2266   400  Total Score = 2,703,600

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

First, I think this maybe one of the hardest efforts we have
 put forth in ARRL SSB. Yes, we have scored higher but this
 conditions made this weekend a tougher struggle. Anyone can
 hang in there when 15M and/or 10M is open. I don't think there
 was very much time when at least two seats were not occupied
 and time even three seats were busy.
 
 Using our available band changes surely helped. Tom is checking
 with N1MM to make sure the program was giving us false warnings.
 I still believe we have 6 band changes per transmitter and our 
 scoring is safe.
 
 Not to deviate from the normal, Dave, AA1CE, and Allan, KB1NRB, 
 had to climb the 20M tower Saturday afternoon after I noticed 
 the middle 20M beam had come out of the lower clamping arm. 
 This was Allan's first climb here and Dave said Allan passed 
 the muster with great score.
 
 Speaking of Allan, he had loaded one computer with all the
 .wav files so he could do a complete QSO without speaking.
 Finally Saturday night he got to use all this work but Dick 
 accused him of sleeping when no speaking could be heard. 
 Allan made a fair amount of 40M QSOs this way and I guess he
 wants to make SSB contesting painless like RTTY!
 
 Tom. W1TJL definitely has "Iron Pants" Making over 1100 of our
 QSOs and sitting in the operating seat for more hours than you
 can imagine it reminded me of the hours N1XS use to put in.
 
The part timers helped especially on the slow bands. 15M Sunday
 and 40M overnight. They don't contribute many QSOs but they keep
a steady count going. Thanks KE1LI and KB1DFB. I know when I 
decided to crash at 4:30 Saturday morning I told Kim, KB1DFB, 
to wake up the daytime guys early and work a JA on 40M and
80M before leaving. Mission accomplished!
 
It is good to see W1UJ putting in more time. We better thank 
Shana for letting Jay get away for so many weekends recently.
Yes, the unsung contributors, the XYLs, for food and work
releases. Jay has developed into one of our better operators.
 
Mark, NB1U, is the lead dog when it comes to leading the 
"runners" in frequency wars. He takes our motto "WE ARE LOUD" 
to the ultimate when being pushed a round. 
 
Both daytimes we had huge runs on 20M. Sunday we were on 14168
for probably 7-8 hours! Saturday I believe it was 14159 for
almost that long. Mark, Tom, and Jay fought those wars well!
 
It took two repair crews to keep the 80M 4-square running. 
K1EBY, NB1U, KB1NRB and W1UJ made trips to the field for this.
We are running one wire vertical since the loss of one of our
pipe verticals.
 
We surpassed last year score by about a million points. I
don't think conditions were better, we just worked harder.
 
Good job by the Barnstormers gang and I think we have the 
"fire back in our bellies". 

Thank you all for the QSOs and patience through the QRM
  
Dick - KB1H


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