[SCCC] N6KI ARRL DX CW SOUAB

[Don Jones]

Nice to work you on 15m !

I had power outages most of the weekend.  I did operate a few hours late in
the contest

73

7Q6M

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 7:52 PM Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki73 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2025
>
> Call: N6KI
> Operator(s): N6KI
> Station: N6KI
>
> Class: SOUAB HP
> QTH: CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 20
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:    7     6
>    80:   32    21
>    40:  279    80
>    20:   81    47
>    15:  205    77
>    10:  358    81
> -------------------
> Total:  962   312  Total Score = 900,432
>
> Club: San Diego Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> Just playing from home and testing another rig (TS-890 - GREAT RX !) and
> antennas. Was shooting for 1000 Qs and 1 million points - Unfortunately
> KPA1500 blew 1 final transistor and Prop Pitch motor quit half way through
> contest so Antenna stuck at 90 degeee azimuth - luckily being a SteppIR
> (MonstIR) I could reverse 180 for Asia and pacific azimuth. I was able to
> still work EU and JA OK
> but not bust many pileups into EU. Found Condx on 80 and 160 poor. Mostly
> S&P busting pileups til Rotator broke - Luckily had spare KPA1500 amp. Went
> to RUN mode at end of contest to pad the log with a bunch of JAs
>
> *( I will regret the JA 10,000 Club QSO cards now coming !) - I'm
> petitioning Trump to put 500% tariff on all JA 10,000 QSL Club Card postage
> !*
>
> :-) - 73 de N6KI
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