CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: PJ4A
Operator(s): K4BAI,
W4OC, PJ4LS
Station: PJ4G
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Bonaire,
N.A.
Operating Time (hrs): 46.1
Summary:
Band QSOs
Zones Countries
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160:
199 13 44
80: 619 20
86
40: 2067 36
134
20: 1635 38
127
15: 1605 34
124
10: 358
18
38
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Total: 6483
159 553 Total Score =
13,621,272
Club: South East Contest
Club
Comments:
FT1000MP, FT1000MP Mark V, AL1200 x 2, 1 KW output,
160M inverted vee, 80M
sloper (N), 80M dipole, 40M 2 el beam, C3, C31XR, one
NE and one NW beverages
switchable to both or either rig, CTWIN logging, two
laptop computers
networked. Our score this year seems to be lower than
last year despite
improvements in the beverages and erection of the 80M
sloper. Both of these
worked very well. Conditions on 80 and 160
and 15 were much worse than last
year, but conditions on 10M seemed a bit
better on Sunday than last year. 15M
seemed down on Sunday from what we
experienced on Sat. Congrats to the team at
P33W for a great M/S
score. We lost nearly two hours to a power outage. We had
not
prepared for that eventually and had no accessible gasoline for the
gasoline
generator. We had to buy some one Sunday afternoon and the
generator started up
fine and had run only a few minutes when the power came
back on. We had wrongly
assumed we could get gasoline for the generator
by siphoning from the rental
car, but that gas tank had a device to prevent
such. We also had to effect a
major repair on the feedline to the C3
and weren't able to get the DSL line
connected until just a few hours before
the contest. Hans, PJ4LS, was a great
help. Thanks for all the
QSOs. QSLs for PJ4/K4BAI, PJ4/W4OC, and PJ4A go via
K4BAI. E-mail
requests for bureau QSLs will be accepted from stations outside
the
continental US. k4bai@worldnet.att.net. 73, John,
K4BAI.