Lloyd and Mike,
You guys did great and sounds like a lot of fun was had by all. I think
Mike is running low power and wire antenna, so very nice.
I only put about 80 in the log. In the first hour Friday night, I saw a
packet spot from Jim KY2D for a station from China on 20 meters. I
jumped up there and worked him.
Except for some short stretches in the afternoons on 20 and 15, I spent
both evenings and both early mornings roaming around 160 meters, trying
to get some DX in the log before the season ends.
I did work 14 DXCC countries on 160 and got 2 new ones (PJ6 and YV),
which I guess was the reason for doing it this way.
Everything I did on 160 was to my south, through the islands and into
South America although I did work CU and KH6.
I've come to the realization that if I ever want to get my country total
on this band to 100 before I turn 100, I will need to Improve some
things here. Perhaps a project for the summer.
Congrats to all who played this weekend, Steve KW3A
On 2/21/2016 9:58 PM, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
> I had a blast, as I usually do during this contest. About 19 hours of
> operation, 836 QSOs and 263 multipliers. I missed a lot of good stuff on 10
> meters yesterday, apparently, and don't try to work 160 from here. My report
> isn't in a format that is easy to compare with Mike's N3FJP output, but
> you'll see it below.
> This morning, before heading to church for 5 hours, I decided to try to
> catch up on 15 meters. In 19 minutes I made 59 QSOs in Europe, calling CQ,
> or more than 3 QSOs per minute. There were some nice pileups trying to call
> me at times. I think I ran stations about 6 times on 15 or 20 during the
> contest, which accounts for maybe a third of the QSOs. The rest were search
> and pounce.
> You can work a lot of Europeans on 80 and 40 from here on the east coast,
> but Japan is much harder from here. And my 40 dipole is still partially
> wrapped around a guy wire, which is probably acting as an additional sloper.
> My best antenna by far is the 6-element KT34XA triband beam at 60 feet, and
> the rotor can be commanded from the N1MM Logger Plus program. Although I am
> entering in the high power category, output power was 300 to 400 watts. On
> Friday night I worked someone right after Tom worked them.
> Congratulations to everyone who entered, even if they made a few QSOs. The
> objective is to have fun.
> Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.5481.0
>
> Band QSOs Cty
> 3.5 32 28
> 7 139 63
> 14 334 71
> 21 288 74
> 28 43 27
> Total 836 263
>
>
> Score : 659,604
> 73,
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>
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