[SJDXA] 3830

[Bob Schenck N2OO]

I posted to 3830. Marty and I working on logs.

 

 

 

CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB

 

 

Call: N2CW

 

Operator(s): N2OO, W2USF, K2RET, N2OZ, W2ARP, WA2ZZE, KE2OI, W2RDM, W2OB,

N2HM

 

 

Station: N2CW

 

 

Class: Multi-Op HP

 

QTH: Southern New Jersey

 

Operating Time (hrs): 40

 

 

Summary:

 

Total:  QSOs = 989        State/Prov = 55        Countries = 50        Total

Score = 345,345

 

 

Club: SOUTH JERSEY DX ASSOCIATION

 

 

Comments: Our 10th year operating from the salt water marsh site of the old

coastal station WSC which is also used by W2GD and his CW team. After Super

Storm Sandy trashed our operating site in October, we all had our hands full

to prepare the site for the 160 contest season. The first priority was to

help our site owner WYRS FM (c/o N2HM) with site repairs and cleanup.

Luckily, the main building did not have any serious issues. But the antenna

fields were a mess. The entire site was under about 3 feet of water during

the height of the storm. This flooded our storage shed and damaged most of

our coax that was stored or left installed below 3 feet. Our beverages were

nearly all damaged by falling trees and had to be repaired. Just hiking into

the woods, which is never much fun at our site, was extremely difficult to

do this year. Fortunately, for some reason we procrastinated setting up the

transmit antennas. Normally, they would have been up and running by

mid-October! A full force cooperative effort was done by members of the W2GD

team, SJDXA, and the Old Barney ARC to help N2HM clean up the site, and get

the site ready for the 160 contest season. The transmit antennas were

re-erected on the 300 foot main tower at the site in the salt marsh.

Unfortunately, the CW team had to skip the ARRL 160 contest this year due to

the storm, but later was able to test out everything in the Stew Perry

Contest in preparation for the CQWW 160 CW. The W2GD team had a respectable

score in that contest, and then handed off the "antenna farm" to the SJDXA

SSB team for our effort as N2CW. 

 

On Friday, a small crew arrived at the site to prune the transmit antennas

for better resonance across the entire band (the W2GD team always has it

tuned for the low end for their CW contest operations). We trusted that the

beverages were OK. We set up all of our radio gear and had a good crew to

operate at the start of the contest. We had no serious equipment issues at

all this time. Only a few SMALL computer glitches but helpful assists were

made by Marty W2CG over the phone!  It usually seems that SOMETHING goes

wrong! But not this year.

 

Conditions to EU were "OK" Friday evening. We were working EU all night

through EU sunrise. We decided to run all day on Saturday and opt to QRT at

1400 UTC (9AM) on Sunday morning. Saturday evening conditions were not very

good to EU. But they were in there and we were able to pick them up from

time to time. Working west was not difficult. But we probably missed WY, NV

by concentrating too much on EU? I don't know.

 

Our team consists of mostly casual contesters and DXer's who transform

themselves into maniac contesters once a year for this contest! This year

was extra special because I felt that although it took 10 years, we finally

got a team together who understands HOW to do this contest! Do it well! And,

have fun doing it! I am VERY proud to be a part of this crew and I look

forward to doing it every year with them in the future. 

 

 

 

See ya' in the Pileups!

 

73!

 

Bob Schenck, N2OO

 

President SJDXA

 

GO SJDXA!!! www.sjdxa.org

 

 

See ya' in the Pileups!

73!

Bob Schenck, N2OO

President SJDXA

GO SJDXA!!! www.sjdxa.org

 

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