[3830] ARRLDX SSB KH7XS(K4XS) SOAB HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: KH7XS
Operator(s): K4XS
Station: KH7XS

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BIG ISLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 44:30

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  133    43
   80:  377    55
   40: 2045    61
   20: 2240    60
   15: 1401    52
   10:   84    10
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Total: 6280   281  Total Score = 5,294,040

Club: Florida Contest Group

Comments:

Considering the current solar flux I was really surprised at the conditions for
this contest, even 10 meters was kinder than usual with several east coast
stations in the log for that band.

Low band operation for about the last two weeks has been hampered by static
crashes from thunderstorms over the Pacific somewhere. These were down to a
minimum for this contest and it really helped on 80 and 160.

Still only SO1R here as I am still putting the station together. Mostly running
here, but spent a little time S/P on 10, 80 and 160.

Several mishaps... The first occurred as I switched to 80 the first night. I
am using a shared apex antenna which hears quite well and use it exclusively to
hear on 80 and 160. After calling CQ for around 5 minutes with "no
answers" I discovered I had a bad PL259 on the end of that coax to the
rig.
Spent 15 minutes taking care of that, problem fixed. My apologies to the guys
who called during that period when I was deaf.

Second event was related to 10, 15 20. The Acom 2000 kept kicking off with the
dreaded "arc fault" message. I traced the problem to the Stackmaster
box at the base of the tower. The feed line had a PL-259 that was not making
good contact. I bent the hell out of the center pin so it did. Gotta fix that
for good this week. I lost another 15 or 20 minutes on that one. Other than
that no problems.

Slept for 45 minutes the first night and a couple the second night...pretty
tough on a 71 year old guy.

One last thing. Working SA on 160 SSB is usually pretty tough, butI had to turn
away several stations (LU, PY) who called me there. Where were they in the 160
contest last week?

Day Hr 1.8 3.5 7 14 21 28 Tot Accum 
2018-03-03 00 0 0 0 299 0 0 299 299 
2018-03-03 01 0 0 0 252 0 0 252 551 
2018-03-03 02 0 0 182 46 0 0 228 779 
2018-03-03 03 0 0 238 0 0 0 238 1017 
2018-03-03 04 0 0 232 0 0 0 232 1249 
2018-03-03 05 0 102 0 0 0 0 102 1351 
2018-03-03 06 23 40 67 0 0 0 130 1481 
2018-03-03 07 39 12 82 0 0 0 133 1614 
2018-03-03 08 14 20 37 0 0 0 71 1685 
2018-03-03 09 4 5 33 0 0 0 42 1727 
2018-03-03 10 5 52 20 0 0 0 77 1804 
2018-03-03 11 8 25 88 0 0 0 121 1925 
2018-03-03 12 0 2 150 0 0 0 152 2077 
2018-03-03 13 1 2 72 0 0 0 75 2152 
2018-03-03 15 0 0 2 15 0 0 17 2169 
2018-03-03 16 0 0 0 159 0 0 159 2328 
2018-03-03 17 0 0 0 4 214 0 218 2546 
2018-03-03 18 0 0 0 0 247 0 247 2793 
2018-03-03 19 0 0 0 0 254 0 254 3047 
2018-03-03 20 0 0 0 0 90 15 105 3152 
2018-03-03 21 0 0 0 0 148 8 156 3308 
2018-03-03 22 0 0 0 169 22 0 191 3499 
2018-03-03 23 0 0 0 192 0 0 192 3691 
2018-03-04 00 0 0 0 205 0 0 205 3896 
2018-03-04 01 0 0 0 217 0 0 217 4113 
2018-03-04 02 0 0 68 42 0 0 110 4223 
2018-03-04 03 0 0 187 0 0 0 187 4410 
2018-03-04 04 0 0 168 0 0 0 168 4578 
2018-03-04 05 0 57 51 0 0 0 108 4686 
2018-03-04 06 0 4 78 0 0 0 82 4768 
2018-03-04 07 0 47 32 0 0 0 79 4847 
2018-03-04 08 12 4 38 0 0 0 54 4901 
2018-03-04 09 9 3 22 0 0 0 34 4935 
2018-03-04 10 9 0 17 0 0 0 26 4961 
2018-03-04 11 9 0 60 0 0 0 69 5030 
2018-03-04 12 0 0 115 0 0 0 115 5145 
2018-03-04 13 0 2 6 0 0 0 8 5153 
2018-03-04 15 0 0 0 32 0 0 32 5185 
2018-03-04 16 0 0 0 160 0 0 160 5345 
2018-03-04 17 0 0 0 152 8 0 160 5505 
2018-03-04 18 0 0 0 32 116 0 148 5653 
2018-03-04 19 0 0 0 0 185 0 185 5838 
2018-03-04 20 0 0 0 0 55 58 113 5951 
2018-03-04 21 0 0 0 126 17 0 143 6094 
2018-03-04 22 0 0 0 22 45 3 70 6164 
2018-03-04 23 0 0 0 116 0 0 116 6280 
Total 0 133 377 2045 2240 1401 84 6280 6280


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