[PVRCNC] YN2NC (AA4NC) ARRL DX CW

[Roberts, Will]

Call: YN2NC
Operator(s): AA4NC
Station: YN2N

Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: Nicaragua
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Location: Other North America
Summary:

Band

QSOs

Mults

160:

80:

40:

20:

15:

10:

Total:

4540

331

Total Score

4,508,220



Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club



Nice to get away from the snow and ice back home to enjoy some warm weather and
play radio in Central America. Except for customs problems that shouldn't have
been in Managua, the trip was excellent. Enjoyed the hospitality of
Octavio, YN2N and his wife, Martha. She tried to fatten me up with her
great cooking.

Conditions were almost too good for the contest. When the bands are this good,
Central America and and the Caribbean are not the greatest location because
everyone in the states is beaming Europe well into the hours of darkness. It
was hard as a low power op to find a run frequency on 10 and 15m, with a wall
of signals over 100 Khz wide on each band. Nevertheless, it was a lot of fun
and I didn't kill myself from lack of sleep. Got over 4 hours each night, so it
was a semi-serious effort I guess. The station played well except for 160 where
the low horizontal dipole ran out of horsepower and I missed some easy mults
because I wasn't heard well in the midwest and west.

Enjoyed operating CW, RTTY and a little SSB outside the contest. It's always fun to wake up early and catch the openings from Central America to Asia on the low bands, then the sundown openings on 10/12/15m.  There's a lot of stuff going on that we don't hear in NC!

73 and thanks for the Qs,

Will YN2NC/AA4NC