[SECC] CQWW SSB - N4XL

[Kevan Nason]

Some great scores by the club.  Good work. Heard several of you beating me
out while trying to work EU, JA and SA.  I've grown to especially hate N4PN.
I console myself by reading about the better antenna's, towers, and
amplifiers you all have.

I'm going to lose some points during cross-check.  I know I messed up some
manual band changes during the fun. A couple stations wouldn't work me again
because they said I was a duplicate even though I didn't have them in my
log.  Wish people would just work you again.

Had 40/80 meter antenna problems too which really killed my score this
year.  Still, I've a much better upper band station than lower bands so
20/15 scores helped compensate. Never really got a run going anywhere.
I'm glad to see the sunspots coming back.

Kevan
N4XL

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To: 3830 at contesting.com
From: knason00 at gmail.com
Subject: CQWW SSB N4XL SOAB LP


                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: N4XL
Operator(s): N4XL
Station: N4XL

Class: SOAB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 31.5

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    5     3        3
   80:   44    12       21
   40:   52    14       36
   20:  268    26       82
   15:  332    29       92
   10:   82     7       17
------------------------------
Total:  783    91      251  Total Score = 724,698

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Great 15m opening.  Glad it's back.

Well, Murphy stopped by with an intermittent failure of my 80/40 mtr
vertical
-- my primary and only real DX antenna. A horizontal loop at 25 ft using 100
watts didn't really work very well for non-domestic contacts.  Anyway, 2-3
hours of prime operating time was spent troubleshooting that and crawling on
the roof troubleshooting, jumpering out switches, and running new coax to
solve
it. Turned out to be a failed solder joint at the feed point of the
vertical.  A
lesson learned for me is take the time to logically troubleshoot problems
before
simply trying the first thing you think it might be.  Saves time in the long
run
even though you think you might be doing better by jumping on the first
thing
you think of.

Also had a known problem with loss of communications between my rig and
computer.  I know that I missed manually entering band switches several
times
and went back to manually changed them as soon as I figured it out.  It's
rough
trying to change logged bands on previous qso's and still work new ones at
the
same time.  You think someone would make a log program that allows that! (Hi
Hi)  I am sure I messed some up and that will cost me some Q's and Mults.
We'll see how the final score falls out.

Thanks to all.

Kevan
N4XL
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