[TAC] YN2DD ARRL DX CW M/S

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CALL USED___YN2DD____________ MODE _CW_  COUNTRY______Nicaragua______________

		Valid QSOs	W/VE Multipliers
160    	357	54
80     	723	57
40     	1178	59
20     	1444	57
15     	725	54
10     	215	31
TOTAL	4642	312

If multioperator, show calls of all operators, loggers___AC8W  K8DD
N8LJ________________________

  4642   QSOs  * 3  = _13926_  x       312  Multipliers =   4344912
 Claimed Score

POWER OUTPUT-CHECK ANY USED:  ____ 5 watts or less    ____ 6W-150W
__X_Over 150
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ARRL AFFILIATED CLUB NAME_____Mad River Radio Club_____

Rig:   K3/100     Drake L4
Ant:   A3 @60'    40M dipole @55'    40M 2 element quad    80M dipole
@55'     160M dipole @55'

Soapbox:
We thought the conditions at the start were pretty good on 160 & 80M.
Saturday afternoon there was nothing heard on 10M, 15M was ok, 20 -
160M were very good.
Sunday was very good and in the afternoon the 10M opening was very welcome!
About 1900Z Sunday afternoon Stan was on 10M running.  Lee and I were
looking at the networked laptop.  The power supply for the Drake L4
went   POP .......... POP ........ POP .............. Ka-POW.   Stan
jumped and turned the amp off, I grabbed the power plug and jerked it
out of the wall.  Stan never missed a beat, he went back running with
100 watts like nothing happened.  Octavio, YN2N, our host, pulled the
power supply and we found a bad filter capacitor and a bad K2AW diode.
 Replaced the cap and put the original diode stack in the power supply
and Stan kept running.
Then 20 minutes AFTER the contest was over we were eating nacatamal's
(like tamale's) and the power went out, so we ate by LED lamps until
Octavio got the little generator running.