[3830] ARRLDX SSB N1BA M/S HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: N1BA
Operator(s): N1BA K4OV
Station: N1BA

Class: M/S HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 41.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   12    12
   80:  101    59
   40:  551    87
   20:  813    98
   15:  763    94
   10:  161    55
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Total: 2401   405  Total Score = 2,912,355

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

SOAPBOX: Our score this year fell a little of short of last year’s, despite
our 
lofty goal of breaking 3,000 Q’s We allowed two days to build a new 
80m 2 element quad, but we were slowed down a bit due to the weather - 
after almost 5 months of no snowfall, the N1BA QTH got treated to 8 
inches of snow and a very cold day on Thursday before the contest. 
Even with two tower climbs by Lee N1BA, we couldn’t quite get the quad 
ready for show time. K40V Rob brought a backup TS-850s since one of 
N1BA’s died the week before. Conditions were remarkably different 
great start Friday night and through Saturday morning we were about 
150 Q’s ahead of last year’s log, but then after four consecutive 
hours of Q totals in the teens Saturday night, we both decided that 
low band conditions were so discouraging that we both took long sleep 
breaks. When we woke up we still couldn’t break 10 an hour and that’s 
when we were trying to remember why we love contesting so much. Things 
and a 130 hour that got us back on track. Next year we hope to have 
the 80m quad up, as well as full Multi-2 capability to take advantage 
of our 6 band changes per hour when operating as a Multi-single. Thank 
you to everyone that worked N1BA this weekend.  Lee, N1BA, Rob K4OV


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