[SCCC] CQ WPX CW - WN6K SOAB LP

[Dennis Vernacchia]

Great job Paul.

The FT-5000 sure has a LOT of features and as you learn them all over
time and the new tricks it can do, you 
will have even less time for book reading in the lulls !

Sounds like your recently acquired SteppIR antenna is also helping pump 
up your score, especially on 40 !

N6KI

Sent from my stinking I Phone 

On May 30, 2012, at 11:14 AM, PAUL DOREY <wn6k at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> CQWW WPX Contest, CW
> 
> Call: WN6K
> Operator(s): WN6K
> Station: WN6K
> 
> Class: SOAB LP
> QTH: Vista, CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 36
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs
> ------------
> 160:    0
> 80:    0
> 40:  308
> 20:  205
> 15:  544
> 10:   78
> ------------
> Total: 1135  Prefixes = 540  Total Score = 1,388,340
> 
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> If this is the second post... sorry but did not see an original.
> 
> Great conditions - met my goals (need to raise the bar a little) and all of the
> new equipment worked in perfect harmony.
> 
> This was the first 'major' with new radio and usually in the past I have had
> problems with microHam stutter and/or hangup a number of times. This time it
> was flawless. 
> 
> As almost everyone's scoring reflects, 15m was really a performer. (the last
> hurrah before the summer doldrums?)
> 
> With the DB18 antenna, ABSO(Ts)LP is now a memory but a great tradeoff as I
> felt empowered with 2 elements on 40m.
> 
> Still experiencing newfound discoveries with the new Yaesu radio but it is so
> feature rich that it will take me a bit more practice to garner all of its
> hidden benies.  (One I like is the RIT is controlled by the VFO B knob which is
> about 5 times bigger than the usual knobs provided which makes sliding those off
> freq sigs very easy in the dark of the night.)
> 
> Another measure of the contest that I use - only 1/2 book read - just busy
> enough to keep me plenty entertained.
> 
> Antenna: DB18- SteppIR (40-10)
> Radio: FTdx5000MP
> Wallet: Empty now for a while.
> 
> WN6K, Paul
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