Only 112 QSO’s spread out over several hours. I spent a lot more of my operating time listening to various run stations and just soaking in the propagation observations on the bands. I just couldn’t get into operating the contest on either mode.<\/p>\n
But maybe thats because I spent the first five hours ripping apart and re-building the station set up. All was not lost. I was able to debug a problem with the DVK input to the radio(a bad RCA jumper). Since I had just completed a new feed-through panel, I also needed several new jumpers to go from the panel to the station. I had more fun soldering up jumpers than I did operating.<\/p>\n
I also discovered that my 20 meter dipole seems to favor the east, so it must have some interaction with the other wires in the yard. Working the European stations I could hear was easy, but working US stations to the west was difficult on the 20m dipole. Interesting.<\/p>\n
I tried in vain to work the ZL who had a really good S8 signal here on my dipole. I was able to work KH6ZM after trying in vain earlier to work KH6 and KH5 through the pile of sixes and sevens.<\/p>\n
Working Europe simplex rather than split on 40 meters was fun. It seemed to help spread things out on SSB. CW on 40 was very difficult this year.<\/p>\n
It sounded like the US ‘five landers’ had a decent shot at running on 10 meters. Am eagerly awaiting more sunspots here in central NC!<\/p>\n
Call: W4KAZ\r\nOperator(s): W4KAZ\r\nStation: W4KAZClass: SO Mixed LP\r\nQTH: NC\r\nOperating Time (hrs): 3\r\nSummary:\r\n Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults\r\n-------------------------------------\r\n 160:\r\n 80:\r\n 40: 14 22 7 9\r\n 20: 17 40 9 11\r\n 15: 8 4 3 2\r\n 10: 4 3 2 2\r\n-------------------------------------\r\nTotal: 43 69 21 24 Total Score = 11,610<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Only 112 QSO’s spread out over several hours. I spent a lot more of my operating time listening to various run stations and just soaking in the propagation observations on the bands. I just couldn’t get into operating the contest on either mode.<\/p>\n
But maybe thats because I spent the first five hours ripping apart and re-building the station set up. All was not lost. I was able to debug a problem with the DVK input to the radio(a bad RCA jumper). Since I had just completed a new feed-through panel, I also needed several new jumpers to go from the panel to the station. I had more fun soldering up jumpers than I did operating.<\/p>\n
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