[3830] ARRL FD N1CC 2E LP

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                    ARRL Field Day

Call: N1CC
Operator(s): N1CC
Station: N1CC

Class: 2E LP
QTH: North Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 15.0

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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  160:                   
   80:   18     24       
   40:   90     25       
   20:  368    168     29
   15:  171    200       
   10:   17              
    6:                   
    2:                   
  222:                   
  432:                   
  903:                   
  1.2:                   
  2.3:                   
  3.4:                   
  5.7:                   
  10G:                   
  24G:                   
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Total:  664    417     29  Total Score = 3,606

Club: North Texas Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment: Station 1: FT-990 160M Inverted L, 80/40 Fan Dipole NS, 80/40 Fan
Dipole EW, on 80/40.  Station 2: K3/100 Force 12 C-3 at 64' on 20/15/10, 6M 3L
Yagi, and DX Engineering 43' Vertical 80-10.

Operators:  Planned second operator had conflict and cancelled.

Bonus Points:  100% Emergency Power and Web Applet Submission = 250
additional.

Primary power for the two tranceivers is from a power inverter attached to my
Drive Electric NEV-48 Neighborhood Electric Vehicle's 48V battery pack, parked
right next to the "Shack".  The NEV was fully-charged before the 1800
UTC starting time for the Field Day period.  The NEV has a capacity of about
14,000 kWh ... and should once again power the station tranceivers 50 Amp power
requirement for key-down operation, even at a 50% transmit time for up to
48-hours operation.  Two UPS with 1200 VAH are connected to the NEV via the
48VDC-120VAC inverter and buffer the power as well as last about an hour apiece
if the battery pack discharges faster than it has in past years.  With only 15
hours of operation, the NEV battery pack did not discharge completely.

Initial rate for the first two hours was over 100 QPH.  Swiched to CW and hit
that number two more hours... remainder of time slow and on RTTY very slow.

Band conditions were not good enough to support 10 and 6 Meters here.  20 was,
as usual the workhorse band.  New E-W dipole on 40 Meters improved the run rate
to both coasts, N-S dipole used as needed and seems to be about 10 dB better for
those stations that had trouble hearing me, or vice versa, with the QRN
situation.  Never heard any signals on 160M this weekend - noise.

Took opportunity to try and "teach" operating practices to some of
the tail-enders and protocal-breakers ... both are getting out-of-control.

73, Jim


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