{"id":5,"date":"2007-03-15T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-04-13T20:28:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T01:28:49","slug":"arrl-dx-ssb-at-nt4d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"ARRL DX  SSB at NT4D"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>NT4D ARRL DX Summary:\r\n Band  QSOs  Mults\r\n-------------------\r\n  160:   26    22\r\n   80:   73    48\r\n   40:  114    83\r\n   20:  370    83\r\n   15:  330    73\r\n   10:   27    13\r\n-------------------\r\nTotal:  940   293  Total Score = 826,260<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I operated the 2007 ARRL DX at NT4D as Multi\/Single with Jay and NT4Q, Jerry.  Jay has a very nice station, and his KT34xa is sure a lot more fun on 20 meters than my own rather lame dipole.  This was very much a learning experience for me, as operating a good station is much different than a low-power-cruddy-antenna set up.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Conditions:<\/strong> I did not think conditions were very good for the high bands.  On Saturday morning, I found it very difficult to establish a run on 20 meters.  I was just not able to pull the European stations out of the QRM.  Propogation on 15 meters was also not very good.  So Saturday morning was mostly S&amp;P, popping packet spots.  NT4Q took over in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning, conditions were a bit better, and I was a bit fresher.  I was able to start a decent run on 20 meters early, and switched over to 15 meters around 9:30 or 10:00 am EST .  By the time NT4Q arrived for his shift, I had gone back to hunting mults.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autopsy:<\/strong> The results were okay, but I think we all agreed we could have done much better, despite the bottom of the sunspot cycle conditions.  Our operation was still very informal.  Jay&#8217;s station performed without flaw, and we didn&#8217;t cook anything.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jay for hosting the  operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> NT4D ARRL DX Summary: Band QSOs Mults &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 160: 26 22 80: 73 48 40: 114 83 20: 370 83 15: 330 73 10: 27 13 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Total: 940 293 Total Score = 826,260 <\/p>\n<p>I operated the 2007 ARRL DX at NT4D as Multi\/Single with Jay and NT4Q, Jerry. Jay has a very nice station, and his KT34xa is sure a lot more fun on 20 meters than my own rather lame dipole. This was very much a learning experience for me, as operating a good station is much different than a low-power-cruddy-antenna set up.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=5\">ARRL DX  SSB at NT4D<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}