[SECC] ARRLDX CW PJ4R M/2 HP

[ku8e@bellsouth.net]

   Arrived back home last night....  What an adventure this time around.  A serious
fire at the island power plant a week before our departure almost had us cancelling out.
Lucky for us Rick, NE8Z, who was on the island a week before us found us a 
backup generator and saved the day. We owe him a few beers at Dayton !  It ended 
up that we only used the generator during the last hour of the contest.

We took some interesting side trips before the contest -  a tour of Radio Netherland
shortware broadcast station and the old PJ1B QTH.  I should have some pictures posted 
sometime this week.

As always a good time was had with my friends - N4GG, N5OT and W9RE...

Also please note since 50% of our operators were SECC members our score will
count towards the SECC club score....

73, Jeff

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                ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: PJ4R
Operator(s): W9RE, N5OT, N4GG, KU8E
Station: PJ4R

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Bonaire
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  357    51
   80:   804    56
   40: 1703    59
   20: 1797    59
   15: 1730    59
   10: 1567    59
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Total: 7958   343  Total Score = 8,188,782

Club: 

Comments:

Great time had by all here in intermittent-power paradise!  Island power went to
rolling blackouts 2 weeks prior to contest - portable generator planning kept us
on the air except for a few minutes lost to Chinese fire-drill generator
change-overs.  

160 TX antenna was very noisy and Beverage was not working on Rx.  

K2NG's QTH here is a great and comfortable place to compete from.  Noah went out
of his way to furnish the generator making it all possible - TNX Noah.

TNX to all of the many who QSY'd for us.  Sorry we missed a few who agreed to
meet us on 160/80 near the end - the last 30 minutes had us repairing a linear
and doing a generator change-over - an exciting ending.


73,

Mike, Mark, Hal, Jeff
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