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73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
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73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
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Conditions on Saturday were pretty good especially on 10. When I was hoping for a repeat on Sunday, no go. Ten was good for the boys from Brazil and that was about it. Fortunately they also have a ton of prefixes. A year or two from now 10 meters will be pretty well dead so this was a taste of things to come as everyone crammed into 15 and of course 20.
I heard W1DX and that was about it.
Jim KS1J
Band conditions were sorta good. For this contest at least. On 10M You had EU in the daylight, Stateside and NA to SA propagation into the evening. Some strange propagation on 20M at times where the midwest was being heard better into EU than the NE. Very puzzling. Good 40M into EU in early AM and late afternoon. 160M was deserted. 80M signals from and to EU were strong.
Mike KB1RFJ put in many hours and got his feet more than wet in the chair. Socks and pant legs, too. Mike K1DM enjoyed his time as well Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
No serious work was done but we had some fun.
73, John W1AN
Looks like I’ll be riding the curve for this contest. My distaste for phone contests caused very low motivation and only about 3 hours BIC time. I decided that I’d do a single band (15m) effort and just popped in to the shack occasionally.
73, Ken K3IU
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CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: K3IU
Operator(s): K3IU
Station: K3IU
Class: SO(A)SB15 HP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 3.0
Club: CT RI Contest Group
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: NG1G
Operator(s): K1SD
Station: K1SD
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Rhode Island
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 30
40: 166
20: 171
15: 109
10: 185
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Total: 661 Prefixes = 439 Total Score = 906,974
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
Pat once again graciously allowed me the use of NG1G for the WPX SSB. In WPX RTTY I think it made a big difference; not so much on phone I felt. I don’t have a single K1 in my log.
Difficult conditions here. Propagation seemed OK but I just could not get any decent runs going. I’d get reports from Europe of “big signal” and then not get a contact for several minutes. Most QSOs were S&P.
Saturday night the K3 suddenly started showing excessively high VSWR on all bands and all antennas. Pulled the plug and went to bed. In the morning I thought I might have pushed the Ant 2 button with no antenna connected to #2. Negative. Later thought maybe the Ameritron RCS-8V Remote Coax Switch might be suspect. Trudged through the remaining snow and bypassed the tri-bander stack directly into the shack. Voila. At least I was able to get through the rest on the contest with 10 – 20.
Heard Jim KS1J early but never worked; John W1AN (as W1DX) called in as well as Rick KI1G. Rather disappointed with the results but had some fun and made a few points.
73 James K1SD
Elecraft K3; Ten Tec Titan
Bencher Skyhawk @ 70′; Cushcraft A4S @ 42′; Inverted Vs 40 and 80.
Call: W1XX
Op: W1XX
Station: W1XX
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: RI
Op Time {hrs): 4.5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 8
80: 22
40: 29
20: 60
15: 103
10: 42
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Total: 264 PX = 199
Score = 162,185
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
NCAA Tournament took precedence.