[NCC] Fw: [3830] TBDC W1NN Single Op LP

[Hal Offutt]

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Subject: [3830] TBDC W1NN Single Op LP


>                    Stew Perry Topband Challenge
>
> Call: W1NN
> Operator(s): W1NN
> Station: W1NN
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: EN91
> Operating Time (hrs): 7
>
> Summary:
> Total:  QSOs = 311  Total Score = 1,754
>
> Club: Mad River Radio Club
>
> Comments:
>
> I wanted to put in a full effort but I was very jet-lagged and just 
> couldn't
> find the energy to stay on the whole time.  Started out with three hours 
> from
> 4:20 to 7:20 local but got too sleepy and went to bed.  I woke up at about
> midnight and got back on for another 2.5 hours.  Turned out that this was 
> a
> very good time to be on and this is when I worked all my EU and most of my 
> West
> Coast.  But by about 3:15 local (0815 zulu) I had worked everyone on the 
> band
> and the rate fell off so I went back to bed.  After waking up at 6 AM I 
> put in
> another 80 minutes.
>
> QRN was not noticeable at the beginning of the contest but gradually 
> increased
> so that it became quite annoying by the middle of the night.  But it looks 
> this
> part of the country (Ohio) had it easy compared to the folks in the 
> southeast.
>
> My pseudo 205' G5RV with a 160' ladder line feedline wouldn't load as a 
> dipole
> but I was able to load up half of the antenna as a long wire so that's 
> what I
> used.  Over half ot the feedline was about 4' off the ground and the 
> vertical
> section was only about 60' but this antenna worked surprisingly well and I 
> felt
> pretty loud for a low power station.  To my surprise I managed to work G, 
> GM,
> DL, CT1, HB9, OH, OM, OK, UA2 and a couple of others.  Some of them even
> answered my CQ's.
>
> I think this was my first time to work this contest and the format is fun.
> It's nice to have something a little challenging to copy.  A little more
> activity would be nice but it seems to be well established now so I expect 
> it
> will just get better and better from now on.  Thanks to the Boring folks 
> for
> sponsoring a great event.
>
> Rig was an OMNI VI.
>
> HNY & 73
>
> Hal W1NN
>
>
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