2001 ARRL DX-SSB

                      ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: N2GA
Operator(s): N2GA
Station:

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: NY
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
  Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
   160:
    80:      5      4
    40:     40     25
    20:    122     52
    15:    169     61
    10:    238     75
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Total:    574    217  =  363,674

Club: Order of Boiled Owls NY (OBONY)

Comments:

How I like CW better!  Low Power is so much more fun there!

CU all in the WPX SSB contest as WV2LI!

73, George N2GA

OBO Famous Feathered Friends:

Here is the story:
Went to Vermont this weekend to operate te contest. Due W2AX;s planned
single-band 10 meter operation, I chose single band 20 meters. In
retrospect, it was a mistake. Larry never got into the contest due to
equipment problems, and I certainly could have contributed more ponits
to the Club had I chosen All-Band rather than single band....
Now, I am not a good Phone op,; had not done a single-op SSB contest in
many years. We used W2AX for SSB in the multi-op setups for many
years..In fact, the first few hours I kept signing W2A....ugh, oops,
K2LE. Thank God for DVP's. By the second day, I was getting the hang of
it.
Finding a Clear running frequency was easy in the morning
hours:(everyone was on 20 and 15 meters. You could call CQ for hours and
get an occasional response from, say, South Dakota. Nuts.) In the
afternoon and evening hours, the QRM was as bad as I ever heard. Runs
were short lived, usually some fat EU station muscled in and shred my
measly pileup into pieces.My Best hourly rate was 75 QSOs. Oh, I can do
better on CW, keying with my left foot..
Adding to my woes was the demise of the low (75 ft) 3 ele. beam. Left
with just one set Force-12 yagis on the rotating tower, I could not
switch beam headings quickly, or listen in two directions
simultaneously. More frustration: the rotator quit Saturday afternoon,
but I was able to fix it by wading thru about 3 feet of snow, ( that's
another story I was going to tell at the meeting). Finally, I had to
quit early  Sunday afternoon because of the predicted snow storm, which
was of course a farce, and my family did not want me to get snowed in up
alone in VT.

With all the excuses, here are the numbers:
K2LE/1  SO SB 20 meters HP ( no packet )
1005 QSOs, -106 countries - 319,598 pts.
Op. Time 25.9 hrs. (per CT)

Highlights: Being called in runs by : 9N7RB, 9M0M ( Spratly ),
HS0/G3NOM,
BA3AG, 5U5A, 9K2K, JY4NE,SU9ZZ, VQ9IO,R1ANB (Antarctica) ZL1ANJ (Long
path) T32RD, VU3DJQ (Who ever heard a VU3?) etc. Kept my interset level
uo while trying to dig up QRP stations.
Statistics: 106 Italians,
                  86 DLs
                  68 G's
                  70 JAs,
                  74 EU Russians,
                  43 Asiatic Russians
76.5% of contacts were EU; Africans 1% (10 QSOS)

CW is more fun....

Didn't spend much time on the air, but heard N2FF.

Call: KS2G
Operator(s):
Station:

Class: SOSB/10 LP
QTH: NY
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
  Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
   160:
    80:
    40:
    20:
    15:
    10:    297     77
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Total:    297     77  =  68,607

Club: Order of Boiled Owls, NY

K2AW

Finally getting around to posting my ARRL SB contest score. 

Band      QSO       Countries     Dupe 
  20       99           55          0 
  15      130           53          0 
  10      329           75          1 

HF Summary Sheet

Callsign      : NA2M
Claimed Score : 326,340 

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Contest    : ARRL DX Contest
Date(s)    : March 3-4 2001
Mode       : Phone
Single/Multi Op:  Single Op All Bands High Power
Section    : ENY
 

                160m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  Total

    Valid QSOs:    0   24   43  105  236   82   490
   Total Mults:    0   20   28   54   77   43   222
  Total Points:    0   72  129  315  708  246  1470

TX/RX      : Yaesu FT-1000MP, Ten-Tec Titan
Power o/p  : KW
Antennas   : 40-Meter Full Wave Delta Loop, 20-Meter Bobtail
Operators  : NA2M

Total Points    296,904       Single Operator--Low Power 100 Watts 
                              Icom 761--TH6DXX  (40 years old!) 

             ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- *2001*

      Call: W2YK             Section or Country:  
      Mode: PHONE                       Category: 10M Low Power

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS    COUNTRIES

      160                  
       80                   
       40                   
       20                   
       15                   
       10    101               54
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