ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: TX (EM00tq)
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 41 29
80: 141 69
40: 399 89
20: 537 99
15: 504 91
10: 69 27
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Total: 1691 404 Total Score = 2,049,492
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
This was supposed to be my first serious high power contest from home. It was -
for three hours. Don't know what happened. After I quit getting answers with
the amp I realized it had no output. Tried everything I could think of to get
it going again with no luck. Ended up using it as an (expensive) antenna tuner
and power monitor for the rest of the contest. Thought of just doing a casual
effort after the failure but guess my competitive spirit wouldn't let me do
that. I made contacts on 4 bands prior to the failure - guess I could still
have made a low power entry on 160 or 10 but that didn't seem like much fun so
went full bore with 100 watts for the rest of the contest.
After seeing all the warnings about strong solar winds and aurora, conditions
turned out to be amazingly good, especially the last 24 hours. First evening
static made 160 very tough but the second evening things quietened down and I
ended up with respectable totals on the low bands - in fact my highest ever 80
meter multiplier total for this contest (though had one mult with high power
that I did not work with 100 watts).
My 3 hours of HP did not add that much to my score. If it turns out I would
have had the top USA low power score (unlikely) I'll really be upset.
Marv N5AW
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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NA calls = 26 34 32 47 34 21 194
SA calls = 3 14 16 33 50 37 153
Euro calls = 5 72 238 333 294 0 942
African calls = 1 4 8 9 14 1 37
Asian calls = 0 3 13 13 2 0 31
Japan calls = 3 5 72 89 93 0 262
Ocean calls = 3 10 21 15 22 10 81
Total calls = 41 142 400 539 509 69 1700
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