[3830] ARRL 10 K7ZS SO SSB HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: K7ZS
Operator(s): K7ZS
Station: K7ZS

Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: OR
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:           
  SSB:  578    88
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Total:  578    88  Total Score = 101,728

Club: Willamette Valley DX Club

Comments:

First real contest operating using my REMOTE setup! 

I am always in Baja California at this time of year, in a remote village along
the Sea of Cortez - totally Solar Powered, 20 miles off the grid. Thanks to a
recently upgraded internet connection, I was able to operate the home station
in Oregon from here. (We have plenty of bandwidth now - 4 Mbps delivered by a
5.7 Ghz Motorola Canopy system microwave link, with 1 relay required on a hill
between me and the nearest town) Microwave DXing!

The setup used a Kenwood TS-480SAT with the RemoteRig 1258 MKII system forming
the link.  On the Oregon side, it was connected to the other remote rig, the
rest of the TS-480 and routed through an SPE 1K-FA solid state linear
amplifier, finally into the 4 Element SteppIR @ 90'.

I didn't have a real 'contest setup' here, just the hand microphone, so it was
Left Hand for the Microphone, Right Hand for typing the exchange into N1MM.

I was very pleased that the 125ms latency of the internet connection (about
1/8th of a second) was not an issue at all.
N1MM reports these MAX rates (mostly hampered by the Hand Mic / 1 Hand Bandit
typing!) were:
Best Minute: 300 Q's per hour
Best 10 Minutes: 192 Q's per hour
Best Hour: 146 per hour.

It was a blast, this stuff works!

Best 73 from XE land - and now GREAT to have 10 meters rockin' and rollin'

Kevin K7ZS


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