ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2021
Call: WA7BNM
Operator(s): WA7BNM
Station: WA7BNM
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: S.Calif
Operating Time (hrs): 11.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 2 2
40: 42 24
20: 91 38
15: 88 29
10: 6 4
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Total: 229 97 Total Score = 66,639
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
First time I've operated in the SOAB category in this contest since 1999. After
fixing the control cable to the SteppIR that a critter had chomped on and fixing
a wiring problem that prevented use of the 80m option, I finally had working
antennas for 80m-10m for the first time in a long time.
Operated 11.5 hrs of the first 24 hours of the contest. Conditions on 20m to
Europe Saturday morning were significantly worse than for ARRL DX CW - don't
know if they improved on Sunday. Spent much of Saturday afternoon filling my
band maps on 20m and 15m with dupes. Have to admit that's it been so long since
I operated bands below 20m in a DX contest, that I'd forgotten who to try to
work when. Stopped at 0500Z (Friday local), so missed opportunity for more 80m
QSOs.
Rig: Icom IC-7610 - 100 watts
Antennas: SteppIR DB-36 w/80m at 70 ft
Optibeam OB16-3 at 50 ft fixed SE
73 de Bruce, WA7BNM (bhorn@hornucopia.com)
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