[3830] WPX CW AD7JP(K2PO) SOAB LP

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CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: AD7JP
Operator(s): K2PO
Station: AD7JP

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:   66
   40:  320
   20:  772
   15:  243
   10:    0
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Total: 1401  Prefixes = 601  Total Score = 1,891,347

Club: Willamette Valley DX Club

Comments:

My score is less than half of last year, although the gear, antennas, and BIC
time are the same.

I wasn't sure I'd enter this weekend - I spent several late nights
trouble-shooting rotator/controller weirdness in the days leading up to the
contest.  'Thought I'd finally fixed things a few hours before the starting
bell, but not so.  I had to make several runs out to the tower to manually get
the prop pitch motor started (spinning the small gear drive shaft).  I finally
left the housing off the drive motor to speed later sprints from the operating
chair.
 
I think I'd enjoy station maintenance were it not for the demands of having a
day job, which makes trouble-shooting an evening chore.  (A 90 minute
round-trip commute to the station makes it a *late* evening chore.) 
Maintenance comes at a cost in sleep.  So I was pretty worn out at the start,
which led to a violation of the west coast prime directive - "Thou shall
work 6 point JAs on 40m through the night, for thy day may be barren of 3 point
Europeans."  (I worked just five JAs on the first night �" choosing
to sleep instead.)

Fortunately, there were some 3 point Europeans this weekend, even on 15m
�" which may not be the case in a year or two.
 
The local noise source that developed for the WPX SSB contest persists, but
kept itself to a manageable sizzle thru the weekend.  The RFI guru for the
electric utility has been out and confirmed there's a bad insulator on a nearby
power pole, but the follow-up repair crew hasn't yet visited to fix. 

Despite the challenges, a fine way to spend the weekend. 

73,

/Bill, K2PO
(with thanks to the real AD7JP for use of the call)


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