[SCCC] ARRLDX SSB W4EF SOAB HP

[Michael Tope]

                     ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: W4EF
Operator(s): W4EF
Station: W4EF

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
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   160:   13    13
    80:    8     3
    40:   26    13
    20:    0     0
    15:   97    50
    10:    0     0
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Total:  144    79  Total Score = 34,128

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

Rig: Ten-Tec Omnin 6+
Amp: Drake L-7
Antennas:     160 TX - 56ft top-loaded vertical
               160 RX - homebrew W8JI RX 4-square
                80 TX - 56ft vertical (wire parallel to 160 TX radiator)
                40 TX - 1/4 wave vertical  (wire parallel to 160 TX 
radiator)
                15 TX - 40 meter Inverted-V at 40 feet


Drove up to my remote QTH saturday night to catch a little bit of the 
contest. I spent most of my time playing around with the new RX 4-square 
on 160. Seems that it works too well as I could I could hear much better 
than I was being heard (heard but did not work TG, V26, PZ, and P40). 
Guess I need to work on the TX side of things now. Knocked off about 
1000 UTC to connect up the remote coax switch I just bought to the 
160/80/40 transmit vertical. Now I can switch between 160 and 80/40 
without walking outside in the middle of the night with a crescent 
wrench :-) After fixing the TX antenna I made a few QSOs on 80 and 40 
before heading to bed. Woke up about 9 AM local on Sunday and was able 
to catch some of the great propagation on 15 meters. It was great to 
hear the band so good. I even had a couple of European stations comment 
that I had a "big signal" which was gratifying given that I was only 
running a 40 meter inverted-V with the apex at 40 feet :-)

73 Mike, W4EF............


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