[Mldxcc] N6ZFO ARRL 10M LP Mixed 803,548

[Bill Haddon]

Pleased to submit a few scraggly points for the MLDXCC
medium club competition.

After 19 years 4 months of perfect service, my Yaesu
rotator failed, so had to rotate the normally rotatable
beam by hand.  Not sure this was a serious as one
would think,  with the 2nd 3-el yagi fixed at 70 deg,
could just run up top and point the other beam to
the hot area for mults; so started with JA Fri at
start, moved it to VK/ZL as band shifted then to
Eu for Sat morning. But major mistake on Sunday
when in the dark I set the beam on south Pacific
instead of Eu, then wondered why Eu signals were
stronger on East pointing fixed 3-el beam.

73 Bill N6ZFO


N6ZFO 2013 ARRL 10M

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 20.75

Club: Mother Lode Dx/Contest Club

 Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts Mults
-------------------
  CW:  849    3396   117
  SSB:  373      746    77
---------------------------
Total: 1222    4142   194

Total Score = 803,548
Equipment: FT-1000MP Mk V at 150w.
Ant: 2 3-el home brew Yagis one at 25 ft
AGL and the other hanging off the back
balcony of the house about 20 ft. AGL.
XYL does not like this configuration outside

our bedroom window, but an owl landed on the
beam Sunday morning, and I've now declared it
to be an essential wildlife refuge.

Comments:

In the last 30 mins K9RS called from DE for 50th
state on CW. Two stations qsy'd from ssb to cw
to provide ND and WY; on ssb I was missing WV
so asked an OH station to QSY there. He was
amused at the question but refused to drive 2
hours in heavy snow, causing me to miss WV on
SSB (and a few others)

Pleased to have 5T0 and C91 answer CQ's on SSB.

Less than ideal conditions to Eu but worked a few both
mornings.  Friday night Sporadic E opening was amazing.

Fewer Q's but more mults compared to 2011... score
almost identical to two  years ago.

73 Bill N6ZFO