[SCCC] Fwd: IARU N5ZO SOABCW HP

[Dick Stepanian]

Good work Marko - tnx for 40 and 20 Q's.  Sounds like you are "growing"
your station and making good improvements.  Keep it going!!

73,
Dick - W6TK

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Marko L Myllymaki <
marko.l.myllymaki at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <webform at b4h.net>
> Date: Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:32 PM
> Subject: IARU N5ZO SOABCW HP
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, marko.l.myllymaki at gmail.com
>
>
>                     IARU HF World Championship
>
> Call: N5ZO
> Operator(s): N5ZO
> Station: N5ZO
>
> Class: SOABCW HP
> QTH: Southern CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
>  Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
> -------------------------------------
>   160:    36            8       2
>    80:   112           12       7
>    40:   500           27      18
>    20:   805           30      35
>    15:   139           18      17
>    10:     2            1       1
> -------------------------------------
> Total:  1594    0      96      80  Total Score = 927,168
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> My plan was to do mixed mode part time and experiment with my newly built
> YCCC
> SO2R box and mixed mode SO2R operation which I never really tried before.
> But
> maybe 8 or 10 hours into it I still had  not gone to SSB so I changed my
> plans
> then to do full time CW only effort.  I probably compromised on getting
> some
> mults on my log as I did not worry about any of that until about middle
> when I
> thought to continue full time to the end.  I have to say that I find both
> mults
> very disorienting for me, as I think this is the only contest I ever work
> where
> ITU zones are in use and same with HQs.  But it is great mid-summer event
> nevertheless with good activity for 24 hrs.  Of the bands 15 was very poor
> here
> on West Coast and 10 was non-existent.  But had great fun and it was good
> to
> test my antennas after getting most of them up recently.
> Current setup:
> Tower 1: 89 ft crank-up with 5 el 15 m and 4 el 20 m, in a month plan to
> have 3
> el 40 on this tower also.
> Tower 2: 89 ft crank-up with 2 el 40 m and C31XR, also inverted V for 80
> and
> top fed sloper for 160 are supported by this tower.
> Separate mast: 30ft mast with A3S tribander
> Pair of K-3 radios and Alpha 87A amps.
> YCCC SO2R box felt very slick after always operating SO2R with dumb flip
> switches for both receive audio and TX control.  This thing is integrated
> with
> N1MM+ !  There is now more to improve on operating.  I guess I have finally
> got
> to basic SO2R level with rather primitive system I have been using for
> couple
> years now, and I hope that this YCCC box (which is still very simple) will
> help
> me to advance to next level with my SO2R operating.
> TNX for QSOs and see you on next one, 73 de Marko N5ZO
>
>
> Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
> _______________________________________________
> SCCC mailing list
> SCCC at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/sccc
>