[3830] RAC Winter K9YC SO Mixed HP

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                    RAC Winter Contest

Call: K9YC
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  CW Mults  Ph Mults
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  160:   29      7       3         4
   80:   65     33       7         7
   40:  100     57       9         9
   20:  126     84      10        12
   15:   94     51       8        10
   10:   42     19       7         9
    6:                              
    2:                              
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Total:  456    251      44        41  Total Score = 516,800

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

I put on the full court press for this one, and enjoyed it a lot. 
Running this contest on both CW and SSB lends itself quite well to SO2R. It's
also a very relaxed contest, and thus an excellent opportunity to learn
contesting, learn a new radio or new logging software, and build SO2R skills.
I've been running the YCCC SO2R box for more than a year now and really like
it. The only thing I haven't figured out is how to get stereo from the K3s
through it for diversity. 

Everything worked fine with one exception -- I discovered that the DX 
Engineering preamp for my Beverages has died, so I patched around it for 
the Stew Perry. As it turns out, the K3 has plenty of gain to accept the 
output of a reasonably long Beverage (mine are 550 ft and 500 ft long). 

I'm really pissed that there's no schematic of the preamp in the DXE manual. I
suspect a pair of blown transistors. On the good side, they're 2N-numbered. 

73, Jim K9YC


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