[3830] WPX CW N8UM SOAB(TS) HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: N8UM
Operator(s): N8UM
Station: N8UM

Class: SOAB(TS) HP
QTH: TN
Operating Time (hrs): 27

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:  151
   40:  425
   20:  282
   15:  163
   10:    0
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Total: 1021  Prefixes = 486  Total Score = 1,307,826

Club: Tennessee Contest Group

Comments:

I had planned a SO 40 effort, but the TCG gathering at the K0EJ super station
inspired me to add some verticals to the back yard.  I got the 15m 4 square
erected a week before the test and finished the 20 meter 4 square in 90 degree
heat just before the start of the test on Friday night.  I made a lucky choice
to stay on 40 and 80 on Friday night and worked plenty of 6 pointers.  I went
to bed the first night about 2:30 am.  That was a good choice as the bands were
punk on Saturday morning so I finished the 20 meter antenna.  Played on Saturday
afternoon and napped some.   I went to bed at 11:30pm Saturday night since 40
had really weak and fluttery signals.  Sunday morn and the rest of the test had
ever improving conditions and the 20 meter 4 square seems to have a respectable
pattern and gets out well.  

For those who are wondering, I don’t have any towers but I do have 50,000
feet of radials on the hillside from a previous 80 meter 4 square.  Yes fifty
thousand feet, not five thousand feet…

I did not operate assisted as the K3 had the infamous IO3 Error Code from a
thunderstorm just two days before the big Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee
tornado outbreak.  I need an antenna decoder switch since I probably spent an
hour or two just unscrewing and changing antennas…  

My two artificial knees are fully functional and the titanium did not seem to
suffer any rf detuning from the radio…  For those of you that snow ski, I did
14 runs before lunch at Vail in early February so I guess the knees are as good
as they are going to get!


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