[WWYC] N4C IOTA story

[n4ydu@att.net]

Hey gang. Band conditions weren't the best during the IOTA 
contest, but KO4PY and I still had a lot of fun. KO4PY 
organized the entire trip and did a wonderful job at it. 
He 
is set up really well for field operations.

We went to the North Carolina Core Banks Island and set up 
some wire antennas (loops, dipoles and long wires) on 35 
foot masts.

We had a bad thunderstorm around 2330Z and we were forced 
to shut down for a while during a really good run to 
Europe. We operated as long as we could during the storm 
but it was tough to pull guys out of the static crashes. 
Signals were reasonable, but the static was peaking 20 
over in short bursts. We were able to keep a rate of about 
80 like that, but I think it would have been more like 120 
with out the static.

The mosquitoes were deadly out there. Nothing seemed to 
work to totally get rid of them. The boat ride to the 
island was nice and the people on the island didn't care 
what we did.

We never really had a good run to Europe on 15, but we did 
have some decent rates 20 and 40. 40M was great for us. We 
put up a quarterwave aluminum vertical right on the 
seashore and it was fantastic!

We spent a little time on 80 and were happy to get a few 
mults with our long wire antenna.

It was nice working the WWYC guys. The ones I remember are 
IK3UNA, 9A6XX and maybe Dl7fer. I'm sure there were more.

I won't be around the weekend of the WAE CW contest too 
much, but I'll try to get on and hand out a few points as 
either nr3x or N4YDU.

The following is a summary of N4C


Class: 100 Watt Island Dxpedition

Band		QSOs		Mults
80CW		12		8
40CW		184		26
20CW		407		50
20SSB		92		39
15CW		95		39
15SSB		23		16
10CW		2		0
10SSB		2		0

Total CW: 	700/105
Total SSB:	117/55
Total combined:  817/160

Final Score:	839,520