[OKDXA] A little bit of great DX

[John Geiger]

Hi alan,

guess I should have gotten on 40 some.  What new CW
countries did you work?

73s John W5TD

--- N5PA <n5pa at n5pa.com> wrote:

> Guys:
> 
> I was able to operate a little bit of the ARRL DX CW
> Contest this weekend.
> One of my neighbors has a heater that is S9 or
> better when running and it
> blanked me out most of the weekend.  But I did
> manage to operate a few hours
> out of the weekend and I made 372 contacts that gave
> me two new CW countries
> and four new band countries.  I had some great runs
> when the heater was not
> blanking me out.  Forty meters was unbelievable. 
> You would have thought you
> were on 20 meters at the peak of the solar cycle. 
> Stations in the Middle
> East, Africa, Europe, and Russia were 40 over S9. 
> It sounded like they were
> down the road from you.  My little Inverted-Vee at
> 35 feet performed like a
> beam.  Everyone had great conditions on 40 and even
> 80 meters proved to be a
> great band.  Wish I could have operated most of the
> contest and have runs
> like I did.  But what little I did operate it was
> fun.  There was some funny
> noise yesterday that was like strong atmospheric
> noise and it would come and
> go.  All in all it was fun when I was able to
> operate and I worked some
> great DX.  I worked Norfolk Island on 15 and 20 but
> I missed them on the
> other bands.  160 meters was not very productive
> Saturday night.  I worked 8
> countries but nothing new.  I did not hear a lot of
> Europeans even though I
> worked deep into Russia.  I hope you guys had as
> much fun operating the
> contest and were able to make a lot more contacts
> than I did.  The phone
> contest is in two weeks and I will be geared up for
> that one if I am not in
> Waco.
> 
> 73,
> Alan, N5PA
> 
> 
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