[NCC] K8AL WW CW Thrashing About

[Alan Day]

   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Countries   Zones
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  160CW       21          21         44        17        11
   80CW       59          59        158        54        19
   40CW      181         181        510       114        33
   20CW      255         255        719       112        35
   15CW      317         317        899       125        33
   10CW      397         396       1154       109        29
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 Totals     1230        1229       3484       531       160

    Final Score = 2,407,444 points.

Here I am, back from the hill, smelling like a goat - looks like 39 hours
on the #>&@ radio!

Arsenal:
FT-1000 + Narrow 250 Hz + HF-2500 for "run" band, AL-82 for search/pounce
160m: 1/4 wave sloper at 75'
80m:  1/4 wave sloper at 75'
40m:  Force12 Mag140N dipole at 79' (new - like it!)
20m: Hy-Gain 204BA at 78'
15m: Hy-Gain 155BA at 63'
10m: Hy-Gain 105BA at 52'

Nothing smoked this time!  Lousy rate, though.  Best full-hour was 112,
below my best of 160+.  Just couldn't sustain it.  Prefer to think it was
propagation rather than incompetence (fat chance).  Really need to build
SO2R, just don't want to cope with / pay for that.  Currently use second
VFO and manual relay-switching to easy-tune AL-82 for search/pounce. 
Kind of a Field Day operation, actually.