[NCC] Fwd: WPX CW NC8C(W1NN) SOAB TB-Wires Unassisted LP

[tleek8az]

Hal,

Outstanding effort.  And huge kudos to both Jim and Gary for their ongoing
efforts,  making the journey to Medina to keep Hal's station on the air.
This is truly what radio clubs have always been about -- although none of
us could have imagined, 50 years ago, that helping put a club member's
antennas back up would enable that member to operate a contest remotely
from half-way around the world, much less during a world-wide pandemic.
Bravo to all three of you.

And Hal, I hope both you and Naoko managed to get vaccinated, which I know
is difficult in Japan ...But I'm sure it will be worth the effort .... it's
probably a prerequisite for your expedition to 9H6!

73,
Tom, K8AZ

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 8:56 PM Hal Offutt <hal at japancorporateresearch.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the use of NC8C!
>
> 73, Hal W1NN
>
> CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2021
>
> Call: NC8C
> Operator(s): W1NN
> Station: W1NN
>
> Class: SOAB LP
> Class Overlay: TB-Wires Unassisted
> QTH: OH
> Operating Time (hrs): 28
> Remote Operation
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs
> ------------
> 160: 0
> 80: 53
> 40: 599
> 20: 521
> 15: 260
> 10: 22
> ------------
> Total: 1455 Prefixes = 614 Total Score = 1,948,836
>
> Club: North Coast Contesters
>
> Comments:
>
> This was an unassisted operation. My log will be sent to the Unassisted
> Challenge as well as the contest sponsor (only because the Unassisted
> Challenge
> requires this).
>
> Stuck in Japan since December 2019, I’ve been operating my station in
> Ohio via
> remote. The WX has been unkind to my modest collection of dipoles, but
> my good
> friends K8MR and AF8A have made multiple trips to repair the damage and
> keep me
> on the air. Their most recent trip was the day before this contest so I was
> back to a full set of four dipoles for this event. The new 20 dipole worked
> quite well and I could even get some decent EU runs going later in the
> day when
> the Europeans turned their antennas on North America (early in the day EU
> is
> strong but they generally can’t hear me). I had pretty good luck on 40 too
> and was able to run quite a bit. On Saturday morning, 15 showed signs of
> really
> opening to Europe but it fizzled out pretty quickly. Fortunately, I
> caught the
> Sunday afternoon short skip and had a couple of really good runs there,
> something pretty rare for me.
>
> Operating remote from Japan has advantages and disadvantages. 40 meters
> is open
> during the day my time, but I need to be awake in the middle of the
> night to do
> much on the high bands. A serious US op will want to nap for a few hours
> around
> 3 or 4 AM, but this is still only late afternoon for me and it is
> usually hard
> to sleep at this hour. Then I am super tired when I need to be awake at
> 3 AM my
> time.
>
> An unusual highlight of this year’s contest: A favorite Japanese TV show of
> ours is a Sunday evening show about World Heritage sites, sponsored by
> camera
> maker Canon. Since the bands are poor at this hour, I was on a break and
> able
> to tune in. This week’s program happened to be about Malta and its three
> truly amazing World Heritage sites: the capital city of Valletta, the
> Hypogeum,and its prehistoric temples. I had not known much about Malta
> before
> this but I was really impressed and the XYL and I agreed that this was a
> place
> we’d really like to visit when the world gets back to normal. When I got
> back
> on the air a little later, I was understandably thrilled to hear and work a
> pretty strong 9H6A on the low end of 40 Meters!  Isn’t radio great?
>
> 73, Hal W1NN (NC8C in the contest) remote at tokyo
>
>
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