[3830] ARRLDX SSB N4TZ/9 SOAB LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 39
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   17    16
   80:   82    51
   40:  158    70
   20:  275    83
   15:  272    83
   10:  355    74
-------------------
Total: 1169   377  Total Score = 1,322,139

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Comments:

OPERATING TIME: 38:49:23
            CQ COUNTER: 622
            RUN/SEARCH: 132/1041 Qs
      UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 737

              SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.246 http://www.tr4w.com

  BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points Countries
 __________________________________________________________
 160SSB        17           17       51        16
  80SSB        93           92      276        51
  40SSB       159          158      474        70
  20SSB       275          275      825        83
  15SSB       273          272      816        83
  10SSB       356          355     1065        74
 __________________________________________________________

 Totals      1173         1169     3507       377

    Final Score = 1322139 points.


A couple of hours of jogging on ten - one Saturday and one
Sunday morning, otherwise lots of time spinning the knobs.
Luckily I have remote tuning pods on both radios so it
isn't too painful.  One of the Orions needed to be rebooted
a lot, maybe due to the large amount of band changing
and tuning?  Late in the contest I found that the RX366
second receiver keeps working even when the main one just
puts out garbage - normally I keep the second receiver 
off during contests because there is a slight amount of 
audio bleedthrough even with the audio disabled by pushing
the second RX audio knob.

The beverages didn't work on 160 again - had lots of 
QRN so didn't spend too much time there. I had to remove
them temporarily in January to get a tree crane in and
remove a few big trees - one of them was being supported 
by a few smaller trees and was threatening the tower
guy wires.  The beverages seem to have some directivity
on daytime noise sources, but don't seem to work at night!

JA activity seemed very disappointing from here.


                             2013 ARRL-DX-SSB N4TZ
                                 Continent List

                    160    80    40    20    15    10   ALL
                    ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---
       NA calls =     9    22    26    34    35    38   164
       SA calls =     4     8    16    48    52    78   206
     Euro calls =     4    58   101   174   174   224   735
  African calls =     0     3     4     6     4    11    28
    Asian calls =     0     0     3     1     1     1     6
    Japan calls =     0     2     3     2     3     0    10
    Ocean calls =     0     0     6    10     4     4    24

    Total calls =    17    93   159   275   273   356  1173


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