[3830] ARRLDX CW K1TN SOAB HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: K1TN
Operator(s): K1TN
Station: K1TN

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Wisconsin
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:    0     0
   80:    8     8
   40:  148    62
   20:  209    64
   15:  491    84
   10:  254    76
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Total: 1110   294  Total Score = 979,020

Club: 

Comments:

I did this with one antenna, a 40 Meter sloper fed with 600-ohm open-wire line.
The sloper is aimed northeast and seemed to work pretty well on all four bands
40-10M.

My antenna for 80/160, a 135-centerfed, broke about two weeks ago (feed line
came loose at the feed point). With more than two feet of snow on the ground
and sub-zero temperatures I just could not get it repaired. The locals say this
is the best winter for snow-mobiling they can remember except that some days
it's been too cold, even for them. I have been very grateful for a place to
live and a furnace that works. 

At the start, I was able to load the sloper/feedline on 80 Meters, sort of.
Then it went to hell. I looked out and sure enough it was snowing again, heavy,
wet snow. The tubular plastic feed line spacers ended up with a half-inch of ice
on them (or inside them). This open-wire line (bought from that guy in Oklahoma)
isn't normally bothered much by ice on it but feeding it as a 2-wire random wire
just didn't work when it iced up.

I wish I could send all this snow to Sochi, or to California.

A gold medal to Russian contesters! Never worked anywhere near as many R and U
stations as I did this weekend. 

Highlight was working XW0YJY on 15 Meters at 0330Z, right over several big-gun
stations :) ... The high bands must have been fantastic for anyone with a
beam.

Jim Cain, K1TN


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