[SECC] FW:[3830] WPX SSB NS4T SOAB LP

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All,

I haven't participated in club activities for
quite awhile, but am now getting back into 
the groove. I think the last contest I worked 
with the club was as NS4T. I'd changed my call
a couple times since then, but back to that 
one again. Grass always greener and all that. 
Found out, like most, it isn't. Although some 
said there must be something else behind the 
call change, it really was because I was sick 
of trying to get DX to understand "Sierra". I 
normally used "Sugar" and sometimes "Santiago",
but always had trouble. I've thought a bit on 
it and decided I was just grousing about 
something that everyone has trouble with -- 
running low power with low antenna's means 
there are going to be a lot of repeats. Glad 
I'm over that now. Didn't complain a bit about
it this contest, even to myself. Anyway, it's 
good to be back with a call I like again. I 
plan to keep it now. I ordered QSL cards last 
week. Didn't have any last time had the call. 
Going to get caught up on all old cards when 
they get here.

A few improvements have been made and seem to 
be working well. Have a 3 ele 20m at 53' and 
planning on putting a 4 ele 15m up around 42' 
in next couple months. The tower is in trees 
and have to consider turning radius. Going to 
try and salvage parts from an LJ204 that was 
cut down for 17m. Have to teach myself a bit 
about yagi design software and see what I 
can come up with. Seems more fun than just 
buying a new one. Also still running an A4S 
at about 25', the 272' horizontal loop at 
25', a 160 Inv L, and have put an MFJ 80/40 
top loaded vertical on a section of Rohn 25 
so it's up about 10 ft. Put the roofing filter 
mod into the 1000MP Field and seemed to have 
helped quite a bit. Also have K9AY switchable 
loops to put up.

Operating skills seem to be improving. I'm 
pleased with the WPX contest results. Finally 
was able to defend a run frequency so tower 
seems to help. Maybe it was just the 
confidence boost. Spent about 28 hours on. 
Didn't get started until Saturday morning. 
Took me that long to finish putting antenna 
up on tower. Also had chopped coax to all 
other antenna's when putting in lightening 
protection and had to finish putting PL259's
on cables and connect everything. 

Thanks for all that worked me. Sorry
couldn't get NQ4I on upper bands. Sometimes 
back scatter works, but they couldn't hear 
me this time. My not working them there 
didn't seem to hurt their score though!

Going to try and get in CQWPX CW although
my cw skills aren't very skillful anymore.


Kevan Nason
NS4T

----Original Message-----
From: 3830-bounces at contesting.com
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:48 AM
To: 3830 at contesting.com; knason at emeraldis.com
Subject: [3830] WPX SSB NS4T SOAB LP

                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: NS4T
Operator(s): NS4T
Station: NS4T

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: SC
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:   19
   80:   73
   40:   78
   20:  413
   15:  128
   10:   23
------------
Total:  734  Prefixes = 428  Total Score = 719,040

Club: South East Contest Club

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