[3830] JIDX SSB KL2HD SOAB LP

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                    JIDX Contest, Phone

Call: KL2HD
Operator(s): KL2HD
Station: KL2HD

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Homer, AK
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:           
   40:    2     2
   20:   16    14
   15:  114    37
   10:   76   152
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Total:  208    85  Total Score = 24,140

Club: 

Comments:

Fun.  Conditions were pretty good for this contest and this was my best contest
to date with my most QSO's.  10m and 15m were both low noise and loud.  I had
very little luck on 20m and 40m. If I heard a JA station calling I was able to
work it.  Got all but 6 of the prefectures.

Extremely strong winds here busted the ladder line attached to my coax balun 3
times which took a while to fix.  In fact, ladder line is still flapping in the
wind right now after the contest... The antenna has never busted before and has
been up over a year in some very similar windy conditions so I am not sure why
this led to failure today.  Trees are moving around crazily.

Operated for 7 hours 90% of it was S&P because I had a (fussy) 3 week old kid
on me for a while. It's a little hard to type 1 handed as you jiggle up and
down while standing and pressing a foot pedal - but I got better at it!.
Eventually, I ran for a while at a good time near the end of daylight
conditions, was spotted and had a steady flow of new calls.  Hooray!  QSOs were
rising, alas, dinner and crying kid called and there went the run.  I look
forward to next year and improving my score.

73,
Jeff KL2HD


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