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The station at
K5TR:
15 meters:
- six element 36' boom Yagi at 70', rotatable
- six element 36' boom Yagi at 35', fixed NE
- four element Cushcraft Yagi at 50', fixed SE
- two element Force 12 2/2 WARC band antenna at 60', fixed SE
Radio 1: Elecraft K3, Ameritron AL-1500
Radio 2: Elecraft K3, Ameritron AL-1500
Headset: Heil Proset Plus HC-4
DVK: W9XT Contest Card
Software: TR Log 6.78
Other: Ameritron RCS-8V antenna switches, ICE bandpass
filters, Top Ten Devices Band Decoders, homebrew
audio switchbox
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Thanks to George for letting me operate his station this weekend. Conditions were much improved over my last effort in the SOSB/15 category in 2009. My personal goal for the weekend was to do better than the NR5M M/M team's 15 meter totals from the CW DX contest two weekends ago. I was pretty sure I could do better than their QSO total, but I wasn't sure about the multiplier total. As it turns out, I matched their multiplier total in the final hour of the contest.
The opening to Europe seemed to be a lot better on day two than it was on day one. On the second day, I got the rate meter up close to 200 while working Europeans, but I never quite broke that barrier. The propagation was also better to northeast Europe and Scandinavia on the second day, allowing me to pick up many new multipliers.
Some common multipliers I missed included one big surprise: no XE station made it into the log! It seemed like there were hundreds of Mexican call signs on phone in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, but I never heard one in this contest. I also missed out on 6Y, BV, CP, D4, HC, UA2, VR2, ZS, and a few others.
After dupes and W/VE calls, it looks like my raw QSO total came out to 1400 exactly. I could not have planned that if I had tried.
I had a lot of fun.
Contest Logging was done with TR LOG contest logging software. The following reports and log were created using TR LOG's post-contest processor.
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Last Updated 26 June 2020 wm5r@wm5r.org |