[3830] ARRLDX SSB EA5ON SO Unlimited HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2019

Call: EA5ON
Operator(s): EA5ON
Station: EA5ON

Class: SO Unlimited HP
Cabrillo Category: Single-Op SB20 Assisted One-Transmitter HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:           
   80:           
   40:           
   20:  477    50
   15:           
   10:           
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Total:  477    50  Total Score = 71,550

Club: 

Comments:

Conditions had been great during the week. Experience tells me that this would
mean it would end in tragedy, and indeed on Thursday we got news of a large
solar disturbance.
 
I lived in hope though. All through Friday I was hearing reports of good
conditions, and when I turned up on site on Saturday and switched on, I heard
W2RE 59 at 11am local time. I then proceeded to work him with 4w, since I in my
haste, I hadn’t hit the on button on the amplifier.
 
I should have known better. W2RE was the only guy audible for the next 2 hours.
The rest of Saturday was slowwwwww until around dusk when things picked up a
bit. But then at 8pm it was like someone had switched off the propagation.
 
Sunday was even worse. I was accompanied by S8 line noise all day, which
together with weaker signals meant I lost many partial calls, and also didn’t
manage to complete a lot of exchanges. The noise reduction on the 7610 makes for
a much more comfortable experience than with other radios, but there’s only so
much one can take and again at 8pm on Sunday, I pulled the plug.
 
Thanks to Victor EA5KV for hosting me for this one, lets see if we have better
luck next time
 
Rig IC7610
Amp Expert 1.3 (1KW)
Antenna Momobeam 4 ele @ 72’
 
73 de Duncan EA5ON


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