N0DH IARU SCORE

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Sun Jul 9 19:21:48 EDT 1995


		NAWWHVEMBUR  ZEEERRROOOO DAAWG HOOOOWWWWSSSSS

				(N0DH)
		           1995 IARU SCORES
			   SINGLE OP, CW ONLY
			(EASTERN), WASHINGTON SECTION

SUMMARY:

BAND		Q'S	     ZONES+HQS

160		 20		 7
80		 44		12
40		255		29
20		390		50
15		 47		14
10		  5		 3
--		----		----
TOTALS		761		115

FINAL SCORE:290,835

RIG:
KENWOOD TS850
KENWOOD TL922 AMP

ANTENNAS:
160m......2 INVERTED L'S 80'HIGH x 100'LONG, 280'APART, RADIALS AT 15', PHASED
80M.......70'GP WITH 4 RADIALS AT 20'
40M.......INVERTED V AT 90' (FAVORS NE/SW)
40M THROUGH 10M....1) LAZY H 68'LONG, SPACED 34' ,TOP AT 80',FED WITH 450 OHM 
LADDER
		      FAVORS SE/NW ON 40 AND 20, ODD LOBES ON 15 & 10.

		    2) BUTTERNUT HF6V MOUNTED ON 30' X 40' METAL BARN
SOAP BOX:

What a joy this contest was to work!! Maybe it's because the level of 
competition is not the same as the "bigger" contests, but I did not run into 
one lid who wanted to run me of my run freq by squatting 200 hz away and 
calling CQ for 5 minutes. Maybe we can rename this the gentlemans contest. On 
2nd thought lets don't, that's what we used to call 160 and there are now more 
jerks with amps on that band than you hit with a lightning bolt.

As far as I'm concerned all contests can change to a 24 HR format, here it is 
10:00am Sunday morning and I'm almost human again after 4 hours of sleep. I 
had fun! I proved (to myself) that you can have have a decent score with only 
wire antennas. My XYL is actually speaking to me.

The challange for next year will be in the stratgey of where to be on which 
bands, when to run and when to S&P. This was my first all band contest from 
the Pacific Northwest and the propagation is totally different from anything I 
ever learned growing up in Florida!. JA's can and were worked 24 hours a day 
from here on some band. They didn't show up in force till the last 8 hours of 
the contest hmmmm. Being called by BV's and BY's in the middle of the 
afternoon was a pleasant surpise. While I could hear europe by mid day, I 
couldnt really work them with ease till nearly 0z, by 0300 they were 20db over 
on 20...go figure.

About the wire antennas! No I'm not trying to prove anything (but a dipoles 
only sprint might be fun!) I had the hole (6' x 6' x 4' deep) dug for the new 
tower by the end of May and was looking to pour concrete the first week in 
June. Around here you dig while the clay is damp because later in the summer 
it turns to brick. Then it started raining and the ground has yet to dry out 
enough to drive a cement truck accross (250' of virgin field) without burying 
it up to the axles which really ruins the cement guys day. I helped a guy hand 
mix 4 yds on concrete once and I'll never do that again :-), so here we sit 
waiting on the ground to dry out.....

By the way no one answered my post yet about whether certificates for this 
contest will be awraded by ARRL Section as in years past or by state as the 
rules say this year?

See you on 160 in December!
Dave
N0DH/7







>From Jeffrey Yeager <jnyeager at southern.edu>  Sun Jul  9 20:06:07 1995
From: Jeffrey Yeager <jnyeager at southern.edu> (Jeffrey Yeager)
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 15:06:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: IARU RESULTS
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9507091403.A6841-0100000 at southern.edu>

IARU RESULTS  PHONE ONLY

Band    Q     Z     HQ
160     1           1   inv L
80     70    10     3   vertical, dipole @ 60  rx loop ie wire around house
40     52    14     7   dipole @ 50,  GP vertical
20    392    30    16          TH-6 @ 55'
15    188    25    10           "
10     15     2     1           "
----------------------------
      718    81    38     240,142 pnts

Equipment: IC737, Drake L-4B, Timewave DSP-9,  CT 9.23, LTA CVB, HEIL ect.

Soapbox:  Highlight of contest was KL7Y answering my CQ on 75 and me hearing
him.  There didn't seem to as much activity on 75 this year as last.
After using KO4EW's 2 ele on 40 a dipole and vetical just dont cut it 
anymore, never could get a run going on 40.
  Missed the 10m opening if there was one, having too much fun on 15!
TNX all for QSOs

73 Jeff KQ4HC 
jnyeager at southern.edu



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