[3830] ARRL 160 VE3BR Single Op HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: VE3BR
Operator(s): VE3BR
Station: VE3BR

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: FN03es
Operating Time (hrs): ~13

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 467  Sections = 66  Countries = 15  Total Score = 80,028

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Comments:

Radio: Ten-Tec Orion + AL-80B @ ~700 W
Antenna: DX-Eng 80/40 Thunderbolt 55ft Dual Band Vertical
Software: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.7342.0

The usual: no receiving antenna and S8-S9 noise on my non-resonant vertical +
what can only be described as my laziness. The first night I had a short on the
feedline at the final connector. Due to the rain and very high humidity? Fixed
this quickly and rather shoddily, and did not weather-proof it at all, hoping
just to survive another day. The second night, when it started pouring down, it
shorted again with a devastating effect on the UHF bulkhead mount that I used to
join the pigtail to the coax a day before. This time around I did the fix
(almost) properly, partially in the dark outside and in the "pouring cats
and dogs" weather, soldering all connections and applying heat shrinking
tubing for weather-proofing. It survived the second night and is still working
:) Moral of the story? Do the job right the first time.


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