[3830] ARRLDX SSB KB1H M/2 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: KB1H
Operator(s): K1EBY KB1H N1WK NB1U W1UJ
Station: KB1H

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   65    38
   80:  195    65
   40:  415    84
   20:  915   109
   15: 1291   111
   10: 1496   121
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Total: 4377   528  Total Score = 6,876,144

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Well, I don't know how many years in a row we have put together an effort in the
four major contests but every one has been fun.
SSB not our favorite mode but we give it our best. The core group has held
together for some 20+ years. Operators and workers
all have the same goal. Have fun and make points. Once again we decided on M/2
even though we had what I say is a small crew.
It's amazing the number of stations that compete in this category with less
operators than us but there are some really good
and well manned stations out there. Our crew this contest was KB1H, W1UJ, NB1U,
K1EBY and N1WK. Kim, N1WK put in quite a few
hours on the overnight which was a big plus.

Crisis number one before the contest started - our coffee machine was not
working. W1UJ arrived an hour after the start and 
determned that the last contest when we emptied the water reservoir we had
thrown away a crucial part. Jay went digging
in the snow and found what was missing. Ahhh! We might survive. Jay also
brought his K3 to replace a failed FT-1000. Failures
were not so bad. The biggest hurt was the vacumn relay in the HF Commander amp
went south. NB1U thought 15M was awful slow
to open but it turned out to be the faulty relay. Only few and weak signals!.

For the second contest in a row KB1H had serious seat time. Normally other
commitments and just keeping things rolling means
not much seat time.

One of the first DX contest was in 1984 and that started the string of
consectitive contests. After all these years so many
callsigns have become familiar. We thank all the stations for the QSOs and
especially the stations that helped when asked to
QSY to a second band. I am pretty sure we set a station record for achieving
the moves.

Lots of food. Everyone shows up with a crock pot prepared by the wives and KB1H
XYL provided breakfast and a homemade turkey
 rice soup. Needless to say the weather out here has been great
"soup" weather. 

Thanks for all the QSOs and now to start planning what we need to work on for
next year!

73 

Dick
 
Dick Pechie - KB1H
The Barnstormers Contest Group - NZ1U
www.qsl.net/KB1H
DXC.KB1H.COM 7300 DxSpider Node
DXC.KB1H.COM 7303 CW Skimmer


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