[Elecraft] EQP Summary and comments

[k4zm]

Call - K4ZM

Band  CW           SSB          Digital
      QSO  Pts     QSO  Pts     QSO  Pts
----  ---  ---     ---  ---     ---  ---
160M   0    0      0    0       0    0 
 80M   6    18     0    0       0    0 
 40M   33   99     0    0       0    0 
 20M   38   114    0    0       0    0 
 15M   41   123    0    0       0    0 
 10M   1    3      0    0       0    0 
  6M   0    0      0    0       0    0 
            ---         ---          ---
Total  119  357    0    0       0    0 

Field Tester Bonus  40 
Battery Bonus  25 

        Grand Total  422  Points

Rig - K2/FT
Serial Number - 18
Comments -  I enjoyed the contest.  Thanks to all you guys that worked so hard to put 
it together.  We lost 6 hours to bad weather.  We operated from a Civil War Battlefield
at Blakeley, Alabama.  John, KD4ORO, and I decided to camp on the battlefield and operate.
This was a good and a bad idea.  The Friday forecast called for clear skies and lots of 
sunshine for Saturday and Sunday.  However Saturday it drizzled rain all day and Sunday 
morning at about 2AM the battlefield again sounded like a true battlefield. We enountered 
sever thunderstorms and heavy torrential rain for over 6 hours.  Life is not good in a tent 
in torrential rainfall. We stayed dry thanks to several tarps placed over the tent prior 
to the arrival of the storm.  Lightning was striking all around us and we had about 
2.5 inches of rain fall in the 6 hours.  I used a 600 ft closed horizonal loop at 70 ft.
fed wth 440 ohm ladder line and an old Heath B1 4:1 Airdux balun and tuned it with the KAT2 
in my K2.  SWR was great on all bands.  Needless to say the coax from the balun was on the 
ground outside the tent during the lightning storm.  John, KD4ORO, used his K1 with its 
KAT1 and used a 35 ft. Ground mounted vertical.  I made several pictures and will try to 
get them on the web this next week.  Some  of the highlights other than the weather was 
working several European stations and Hawaii and qso's with Wayne, N6KR and Eric, WA6HHQ.
Thanks again all and especially to the gentleman who provided the dupe checking software.

72
Jim


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