CQ Worldwide DX Contest - CW
Call: N3RS
Operator(s): N3ED, N2SR, K3WU, W7CT, W8FJ & N3RS
Station: N3RS
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Glenmoore, PA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 71 12 34
80: 413 22 86
40: 1764 35 129
20: 1940 38 152
15: 1746 38 146
10: 1629 34 138
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Total: 7554 179 685 = 18,768,672
Club/Team: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This was a 6 man, 4 station, two tower effort by 4 old guys (55-63) and two
relatively young (30-45) men. We had a few unique problems that we haven't
encountered in a major DX contest before, including a solar flare induced
blackout and one of the 4 station computers continually shutting down when it
was connected to the network. The fix was to run 15M and 160M disconnected
from the network from Sunday morning till the end of the contest. This caused
a problem with our preliminary report on Sunday evening on 3830. The log, when
finally merged correctly, changed the numbers to what is shown here.
Conditions were extraordinary, including the flare, which seemed to shut things
down for about 20 minutes. The recovery was amazing and we got back to running
after only 20 minutes. We missed our goal of 20 meg, but this was an all-time
high score from this station.
Besides the computer problem, we also had some rather severe interference on
20M (and occasionally on 15M) from the 40M station. I had reported this on
TOWERTALK, but we were unable to effect a cure before the contest. The other
major hit was when the wind started to blow a bit on Saturday evening and the
Force 12 EF180C dipole started shorting out at the insulators at one end of the
element. This has happened to us before, but it is just one other thing that
we couldn't get fixed before the contest. The result was that we could not run
Europe on Saturday night or Sunday evening.
Bottom line is that everyone had fun and we did the best that we could with
what we have here.
73's de Sig, N3RS
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