[SECC] WPX

[Fred Dennin]

CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: WW4LL
Operator(s): WW4LL, KI5XP, K4ZJ, WF4W, K4AQ, K9JS, K5ZM, NN4RR
Station: WW4LL

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts
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   80:  504  1278
   40:  845  3048
   20:  878  1906
   15:  360   821
   10:    4     7
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Total: 2589  7051  Prefixes = 730  Total Score = 

5,147,230

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Thanks to everyone that contacted us and to everyone for their patience in asking for repeats.  15 was up and down and we lost the designated 15 meter antenna just as 15 opened Sat. morning.  

It was a real pleasure operating with Charlie, KI5XP who most in the RTTY community know, is a very skilled operator.  I think we picked up on one or two of Charlie's secrets but he obviously didn't share them all :)

We assembled a good group of ops together and this was the first 48 hour test of the new antenna system recently installed principally by NN4RR with assistance by K4WZ and W4BW.  I should also say that I had emergency gall
bladder surgery Tues. and had planned on performing last minute antenna work that morning.  While I was in surgery, NN4RR and K4WZ continued on with the
antenna work which turned out to be a lifesaver on 15 after the primary antenna failed.  A big thank you to both of them.

N1MM performed flawlessly for us and too, was the first 48 hour test of this software since changing from WL.  Tom, N1MM responded directly to a question that we posed on the reflector the morning of the contest.  It doesn't get any better than that.  A big thanks to Dennis, K4ZJ, who has become our resident N1MM expert.

Thanks to all the SECC members who worked us, particularly Ralph, K1ZZI who went out of his way to find us on 5 bands.

Oh, and regardless of recent posts this weekend......RTTY ROCKS!!

73'.....Fred WW4LL