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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