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ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- *2002* Call: W2YK
Mode: CW Category: single op UNassisted
BAND QSO PTS COUNTRIES
160
80
40 79 40
20 183 54
15 338 67
10 358 67
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Totals 958 2874 228 = 655272 Power Output -- 1000W Club Affiliation: Order of Boiled Owls, NY ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 2002 Call: N2FF
Category: Single Unlimited
Power: High Power
Band: All Band
Mode: CW
Section:
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 0 0 0.0 0
80 8 24 3.0 8
40 70 210 3.0 57
20 172 516 3.0 84
15 188 564 3.0 81
10 223 669 3.0 84
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Totals 661 1983 3.0 314 = 622,662 73 de Frank..........N2FF ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: VP5GA
Operator(s): N2GA
Station:
Class: SOAB LP QTH: DX Operating Time (hrs): 44 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ---------------------- 160: 292 51 80: 390 55 40: 633 58 20: 655 60 15: 728 58 10: 879 58 ---------------------- Total: 3577 340 = 3,648,540 Club: OBONY / YCCC Comments: Lots of fun again! My second year as SOAB Low Power from the Turks and Caicos Islands. This time I was more prepared both mentally and physically but less prepared equipment-wise. I spent the days prior to the contest getting set for single op - two radio operation. I neglected to bring one of the cables necessary for audio / CW switching and had to improvise. I can't tell you how hard it is to find an eight pin DIN connector on a small island! I found every electronics / computer / music store on Providenciales! Eventually, I had to butcher another cable for the connector but finally got everything working. The contest itself seems to have had great conditions across all the bands. The low bands in particular were atmospherically quiet and I picked up many more mults on 160 and 80 than last year. Friday night and Saturday during the day were good but Sunday was a big disappointment. It wasn't until the last three hours that conditions appeared to pick up for me. I tried to go the whole contest without sleeping but couldn't quite make it. I napped early Sunday morning about 3 hours. I found myself falling asleep between QSO's late Saturday night - at one point pressing the 'L' key until the computer crashed! I did especially well on multipliers this year - scoring 340 out of a possible 378 maximum (63 per band for DX stations maximum). This was an increase of 12 mults over last year - not insignificant - and was enough to keep my score around my 2nd place world showing last year. It remains to be seen if this will hold up for any placing this year. However I did have fun and enjoyed working all the fine CW ops in the US and Canada. Thanks to all, especially for all the QSY's to other bands for needed mults! Big thanks to Diane K2DO for all her support and to Jody VP5JM for the use of her station. 73, George -- George Tranos VP5GA (N2GA) ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 2002
Call: NA2M
Category: Single Operator
Power: High Power
Band: All Band
Mode: CW
Section: ENY
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 6 18 3.0 5
80 0 0 0.0 0
40 120 360 3.0 54
20 154 462 3.0 57
15 136 408 3.0 53
10 195 585 3.0 60
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Totals 611 1833 3.0 229 = 419,757 Equipment Description: Yaesu FT-1000MP, Ten-Tec Titan 800 watts.
40-meter Delta Loop
20-meter bobtail
160-meter inverted “L”
Club Affiliation: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
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