[3830] WPX CW KT2Z(K5NA) SOSB160 HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: KT2Z
Operator(s): K5NA
Station: K5NA

Class: SOSB160 HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:  176
   80:     
   40:     
   20:     
   15:     
   10:     
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Total:  176  Prefixes = 109  Total Score = 31,283

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

It was a long and noisy weekend for me while doing a single-band 160M.

Before the contest I didn't do a good job  of verifying the status of my
beverage antennas. I had taken 6 of them down for summer mowing and had only 4
remaining up. On Friday night I found that only one of the remaining beverages,
the ENE beverage, was actually working correctly. The NE didn't work at all and
the other two worked only marginally.

On Saturday during the day I went out to the field and tried to fix them all.
But one of them, the SE, failed again sometime during the second night.
Spending much of the day working in the 96F heat and then trying to stay up
again all night was a problem. I was very tired the second night and struggled
to stay awake.

My overall best hourly rate for the contest was 14 QSOs and the worst was zero
QSOs. The QRN was relentless and it was a struggle to copy during about 80% of
my QSOs. Actually it was two struggles, the first to get the call and the
second to get the number. I hope I don't have a lot of logging errors because
of the QRN.

The result was a new W5 record on 160M breaking a 25 years old record set by
K5UR. I could have done a little better this weekend had I been more prepared
for the contest. But that's the way things go sometimes.

Thanks to all who stuck with me until I could get your entire exchange.

73, Richard - K5NA


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