[ADXA] ARRL International DX Contest - CW

Mon Feb 21 17:55:25 EST 2022

Guys,
  That was a fun radio weekend, & I have to say I have never seen so much activity from Arkansas in any major contest.  I heard five stations from the NW area alone, unfortunately not all are ADXA members.  It used to be Arkansas was a semi-rare state in this event, but not this year.

  I operated as SOABUnlimited this go around, which was different for me.  I finished with 1,359 Qs & 315 mult’s.  Full breakdown is on the 3830 site if you are interested.  The overall conditions from Fayetteville were really good.  I agree with Dennis’s assessment of 10 M.  When I couldn’t hear ZF5T on 10 Saturday afternoon I thought it was going to be a total bust, but things improved on Sunday with good propagation to SA & the Pacific, but only a few European stations.  I have always been fascinated with propagation on 10M.  I like to compare it to ocean currents & the jet stream was just tickling Europe for me.

   Current station set-up is a TS-590S & AL-1500 amp.  I have a pair of short boom yagis on a 70’ tower with a rotatable dipole for 40 on top.  Inverted V for 80 & a barely functional L for 160.  No receive antenna for the low bands.  The tribanders are the same design that K5GO/N5DX built for WRTC IN 2014.  With a 15’ boom K5GO always called these guys TV antennas, but they really deliver a big “boom for the buck”.  I am convinced they out-perform a pair of TH6s I had up years ago.

   Congrats to W5SJ & the ZF5T team for apparently winning the whole thing in their category.  We need Bill to twist K5GO’s arm for a presentation of the ZF5T station at a future meeting.
73. Chuck KM5G

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On Feb 21, 2022, at 11:00 AM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:

I'm in recovery today and catching up on email. I'm very pleased to see the large number of ADXA folks who jumped in the pool, even if it was in the shallow end !

My results in the Single Op All Band (SOAB) UNasssited category were 2,120 Q's, 340 mults for a final claimed score of 2,162,400. Rather than post my summary here you can read my write up on 3830 at:

https://www.3830scores.com/showrumor.php?arg=xja1zOssmsqm3

I've spent the past year transitioning the antennas from a VHF contest focus to an HF contest focus and have added an additional 40 meter beam as well as moving the HF antennas to a 3x stack on JK MidTri's. I still have the third one to put up in the next couple of months. So, if you were here for the ADXA meeting a couple of years ago things have changed a good bit with the antennas!

Now to get the log in to ARRL.

73 Joel W5ZN

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