[PVRCNC] ARRL CW N4YDU SOABLP

[Nathan Moreschi]

ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 2006


      Call:      N4YDU
      Category:  Single Operator
      Power:     Low Power 
      Band:      All Band
      Mode:      CW 
      Section:   NC (Franklinton)
      Operating Time: 34 hours

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES


      160       68      204   3.0       43
       80      145      432   3.0       56
       40      298      888   3.0       73
       20      677     2028   3.0       83
       15      284      852   3.0       76
       10       19       57   3.0       11
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     Totals   1491     4461   3.0      342  =   1,525,662


Well, it proved to be a fun weekend. I wanted to operate more, but sickness developed Friday morning and kicked in pretty hard Saturday afternoon. I slept three hours Friday, but found myself in need of a lot of naps.

This was the first contest from the new qth. Conditions were good enough to keep things fun. 15 Meters was much better for me the second day. I was able to run Western Europe on Sunday and JA started coming in late in the day. The low bands were great! It was nice to have receive antennas.

The biggest negative was losing the power output on one of my IC 751A rigs. I'm pretty sure the finals popped. I switched to 10M on Sunday and after a third call to PJ2T, there was very little power output. I think the drivers are OK. Anybody know of an easy and cheap way to fix the rig?

Equipment:

Antennas
8 element lp (14-28 mhz) at 75 feet
3 element ta33jr at 30 feet
40M Inverted vee at 65 feet, groundplane at 40 feet, half-square (NW/SE), half-wave vertical
80M Inverted vee at 60 feet (NW/SE) half-square (NE/SW), quarter-wave vertical
160M Inverted L

Receive antennas: 160/80 four square and 600 foot beverage

Rigs: Two icom 751As
Software: CT

73,

Nate/N4YDU