[WWYC] N4YDU CQWW SOABLP

[n4ydu at att.net]

What's up dudes?

The contest was fun as always. I ran into a bunch of the WWYC gang. Here's a 
few that I remember 9A6XX (who made me laugh when I told him I was very tired. 
His response was a few Zs, he sent me a few more later in the test!), DL1IAO 
(four bands), LZ1ABC (two or three bands), IK3UNA, LX7I (two bands), DJ1YFK 
(two bands) and more.

It was cool having my girlfriend around the house to help out :-))

By the way, I'll be in Germany from July 7-16 this summer, so I'll miss the 
gathering the following week. I hope to meet up what some of you though. I plan 
on taking trains to a few places. I'll probably stay with Dl7FER and maybe 
DJ1YFK. It's going to be fun. I may to the IARU contest from Berlin.

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

 Call: N4YDU
 Operator(s): N4YDU
 Station: N4YDU

 Class: SOAB LP
 QTH: NC
 Operating Time (hrs): 35
 Radios: SO2R

 Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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   160:   22     5       11
    80:  109    16       50
    40:  303    21       84
    20:  266    24       82
    15:  550    24       98
    10:  295    26       78
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 Total: 1545   116      403  Total Score = 2,233,776

 Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

 Comments:

 WOW! I wasn't sure if I was going to do a big effort until the week before the
 contest, but when my girlfriend (Kosha) offered to hang around the house and
 help out with food and such, I decided to go for it. I had the best of both
 worlds. A pretty girl and the CQWW CW DX contest!

 Conditions weren't the greatest, but they were steady which made things very
 interesting. I didn't spend too much time on 10 meters, but 15 meters was the
 band for me. I called cq for nearly five hours on 15 Saturday and used the
 second radio to pick people off on 10M. I did have some good runs on 10M 
Sunday morning. 20M was very good to Europe for a stretch on Saturday 
afternoon, but Iprobably could have got more out of the band. 20M is a real 
weak point for me. 40M was great, although I didn't think I was going to log a 
single JA. I finally got one to hear me just after sunrise on Sunday. 80M was 
good to Europe and 160 was a disappointment.
I decided to use my laptop to cut out monitor noise and RFI in the keyboard. It 
made things a little easier for me. I went with CT for the logging program.

 I also decided to go with my call instead of the club call (NR3X). I just like
 N4YDU on CW for some reason. The final score was a personal best.

 Station:

 Radios: Icom 765 and 761
 Antennas: TA33JR at 35 feet, 3 ele 15M yagi (fixed NE) at 30 feet, 20M delta
 loop at 50 feet (fed with open wire for use on 15 and 10 with a tuner), 40M
 inverted vee at 60 feet, 80M ground plane and 160 Inverted L.

 I hope to see everyone in the ARRL CW contest.

 CW RULES!


 Nate/N4YDU