I heard Steve and Kurt. Heard Bob W1RH but too week to work. Conditions were spotty but you can imagine my glee working Australia!
Call: N1DID
Operator(s): N1DID
Station: N1DID
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 17
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 136 53
SSB: 124 51
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Total: 260 104 Total Score = 82,368
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I just moved to CT from CA a month ago, so this was my first time doing this
contest in CT. I had made a fan dipole for 10 and 15, but switched to using a
Buddipole and 100W as I did in California. The fan dipole is up 45 ft, and it
worked well, but on Friday I put up the Buddipole (up 25') pointing into the
Caribbean since the fan dipole is pointing towards Europe. Turns out the
Buddipole was out performing it by 2-3 DB. So I went back to using it and just
hand rotated it.
Last year in CA (in an HOA I scored about 12,000 points, this year 83,000
points. But I never heard a K9 and the only K4 I worked was in FL. Only W3s
were in PA, and never heard VT or NH. Had a lot of CA, OR and WA, 2 in
Australia. But There were times I was going to toss it in.