[TVARC] CQ WW RTTY ND4G SOAB Classic HP

[Rich Erlichman]

Well, the oppressive heat over the last couple of weeks, and 
intermittent rain prevented me from finishing up and having the new 
Cobweb antenna ready to go. It is working for low power and I am using 
it for FT8; but the ends need to be soldered to prevent the frayed ends 
from arcing in the presence of high power. I am still not sure if my 
investment is paying off. The signals seems to be a bit lower than on 
the Flagpole/vertical, but it is a horizontal polarization, and in 
theory that tells me the vertical would be noisier than the horizontal.

Anyway, back to the contest -- I had a couple of runs on Sunday logging 
16 Qs in 22 minutes, 28 Qs in 27 minutes, and 9 Qs in a 10 minute 
period.
I had an unplanned crisis at home preventing me to not operate at all on 
Saturday, but thanks to Football scheduling, I was able to maximize my 
Sunday.

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2022

Call: ND4G
Operator(s): ND4G
Station: ND4G

Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: NFL
Operating Time (hrs): 12.6
OpMode: SO2R

Summary:
Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX  Zones
-----------------------------------
   80:
   40:   39      21      13     6
   20:   75      27      24    13
   15:   68      22      25    11
   10:   24       5      16    12
-----------------------------------
Total:  206      75      78    42  Total Score = 78,390

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

Comments:
FLEX 6600M -> KPA500 (500w) -> MFJ-998RT (remote tuner) -> 20' Flagpole (stealth vertical).
Software -> Win11, SmartSDR, N1MM+, MMTTY, 2Tone.

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