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KA2D
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: KA2D
Class: SOAB(A) HP
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 78 46
40: 105 48
20: 213 69
15: 226 76
10: 0 0
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Total: 622 239 Total Score = 445,974
Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
Comments:
Had plans for more hours in the chair, but flu/virus got to
me. Very few hours on Saturday and Only a few hours Sunday..
Worked P40LE and heard most of the OBO boys..
Did mostly S&P ...
Tom KA2D
K2DO
K2LE
Hello Hooting friends:
It was a delightful weekend. As I indicated, I could steal away only for
sporadic periods between family obligations here with family arriving in
various increments etc.
Started out almost 3 hrs late because of dinner engagements and a software
problem on my laptop. Ran 5 hours on 40 and 80 ( very noisy) and got 450
QSOs in. Could not get back on the air till late in the afternoon for an
hour and a half, missed the 10 meter opening. Saturday nite got so slow
( I worked all the loud ones, the weak ones I could not hear) that I
quit at midnite ( 0400 Z here). Sunady I cajoled my son Larry to go to
the second airport excursion and got on 15 - it was good then went to
10 - just caught it as it opened to the East Coast around 1900 Z.
That was the best part of the contest, had a HUMONGOUS pileup going.
peaked at 300/hr. rate. Sorry I had to leave when the grandkids blew in
like a set of tornados.
All told, I was on the air for 10.38 hrs.
T'was great to see so many hooters - some guys not even in the club sent
"HOOT" at the end of the exchange. Where did they get that idea?The high
flying featherful surprisigly was Tony N2UN ( he was actually LOUD on most
bands) The tally is :
N2UN - 5 bands
K2QMF - 4
W2LK -3
K2SX - 3 (+ 1 DUPE)
N2FF -3
KA2D -2
NA2M -2
W2YK -1
Never heard N2GA or KS2G ( that what's happening if both of us are
runnig - I did almost no S+P)
Final score:
160 - No antenna
80 - 298 50 states/ provinces
40 - 260 44
20 - 114 37
15 - 190 43
10 - 149 33
Total 1012 Q - 207 Mult = 628,452
Oh yes - was shooed off 3Y0X's frequency in the middle of one run.
Nuts. They shud have been on the WARC bands..
Peak rates - 1 min_ 300/hr; 10 min - 198/hr; 60 min - 148/hr.
Not ban for a 100 Watts and a vertical. Next year I'll bring a stepper
beam.
73s
Andy K2LE/P40LE
KS2G
Operated seven hours SOLP-Assisted ... all S&P just clicking packet spots
(trying for mostly mults) on the N1MM band map ... while also looking for
3Y0X (whom I saw spotted numerous times, including "in the contest", but
never heard him either on phone or cw).
Also saw P40LE spotted, but couldn't hear him ... and saw someone spot W2LK.
Not too shabby for a "phone guy" working a radio with no cw filter and
antennas all tuned to the SSB sub-bands:
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: NY
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 5 5
40: 26 23
20: 52 44
15: 50 40
10: 1 1
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Total: 134 113 Total Score = 45,426
Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
73,
Mel - KS2G
K2QMF
Hooot's to All,
Great contest and Great fun..
Was very nice to hear so many of our Owl's
during the weekend.
There was a lot of Hooting going on around
Andy's frequency!!!
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K2QMF
Operator(s): K2QMF, AA2FB
Station: K2QMF
Class: M/S HP
QTH: NY
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 116 55
80: 254 77
40: 765 97
20: 1230 103
15: 476 92
10: 20 13
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Total: 2861 437 Total Score = 3,750,771
Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
K2SX
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K2SX
Operator(s): K2SX
Station: K2SX
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: eny
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 53 37
80: 147 65
40: 423 91
20: 642 89
15: 243 79
10: 8 3
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Total: 1516 364 Total Score = 1,655,472
Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
N2FF
Hoot, Hoot. Got Andy on three bands. Dennis and Tony did a great job
with marginal antennas. (I do think Dennis was at home?)
Nice to see such a large group of us in there for this one. Now if only
I could run in CW. I also had a big noise problem her when I beamed north
or east. Not a good direction to have noise. It seems to be louder now
that I have repaired the quad. Hey I'm even hearing noise better.
Bottom line, we should a big number with 12 entrants.
Unfortunately I thought the 3Y0X was a pirate and never even bothered to
listen for them so I did not get them on 30 or 40 meters. And I have no
160 antenna.
Frank...N2FF.....
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N2FF
Operator(s): N2FF
Station: N2FF
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: East Williston, NY
Operating Time (hrs): 26
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 57 36
40: 132 62
20: 232 74
15: 124 65
10: 0 0
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Total: 545 237 Total Score = 387,495
Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
N2GA
A decidedly small time effort. I ran low power, unassisted. Had fun
anyway! I heard K2QMF, N2UN and W2YK in the pileups. Anyone else operate?
Best rates were today (Sunday) on 20m in the morning. Best 60 minute rate
was 119/hour ffrom 1447 to 1546z, best 30 minute rate was 142/hour from 1505
to 1534, best 10 minute rate was 156/hour from 1516 to 1525 (all on 20m).
Hope you all had fun and did well!
73, George
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ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N2GA
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: NY
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 26 22
40: 132 49
20: 398 64
15: 204 65
10: 11 9
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Total: 771 209 Total Score = 483,417
NA2M
Hoot, hoot!
I decided to try this contest in low power category. I think I
did almost as well the last time in high power. I screwed up my
remote antenna tuner and couldn't get to load a the low end of
80 or 160. The swr was very high, but with the shack tuner I
was able to get a low swr for the FT-1000MP and made a few
contacts on 80. The remote tuner is djusted perfectly for 75M
and 160 ssb.
Heard W2LK, W2YK, N2UN, KA2D, and had 2 QSOs with P40LE. Worked
3 JA's, and KH6 in closing minutes of contest. The TO9A (FM)station
wasn't scoring until I downloaded latest CTY.DAT file. I used N1MM
to log the contest.
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: NA2M
Operator(s): NA2M
Station: NA2M
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: Mohegan Lake, NY
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 39 31
40: 165 64
20: 106 52
15: 135 64
10: 13 8
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Total: 458 219 Total Score = 300,249
Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York
N2MUN
N2UN
By my count, we had 12 Owls--count em'--in the test. Tnx expecially to Mel
for getting in a bit. I heard N2FF, N2GA, K2QMF (really big in the pileups
on all bands), K2SX (beat me every time I recall, though he sez otherwise;
also FANTASTIC score), W2YK, NA2M,KA2D,W2LK ( heard just in the last few
minutes on 80), N2MUN (heard his call called but didn't hear Phil), and of
course P40LE (5 bands after Andy QSYd for me from 10 to 15). Unbelievable
turnout. We should do well. This suggests that we could go for our own
clean sweep and get everyone on, at least for a few Qs, one day.
I used just the trap ground plane and 500 watts. 10 mtrs is terrible with
a vertical, and I could hear very little. Big surprise was hearing JA on
15 at this point in the cycle. Worked 3Y0X on 40.
Someone please tell me how to get the great N1MM to accept TO9 as FM.
Right now, it shows no country for it.
Here's the summary. I still have to clean up the log.
80 127 61
40 252 79
20 354 80
15 179 74
10 17 9
TOTAL 929 305 850,035 highest ever from this
QTH.
73,
Tony
W2AX
W2LK
So here's the story:
- Beam was frozen on Europe and wouldn't rotate for almost all of the time
- 160M inverted L was torn down by the wind Friday. I didn't discover this
until about 11:30 PM Friday night. Spent Saturday from 9:30AM to 2:30PM in
the cold with a 30MPH wind trying to get a line over a tree to replace the
L. Finally got it.
- N1MM and MicroKeyer wouldn't cooperate and from time to time I had to
reboot to keep sending CW. The last 3-4 hours on Sunday evening were
particularly problematic. So much for the new Dell with Intel D dual core
chip which may have contributed to the problem.
Almost all my Q's were S&P. I ran on 20 for a little while Sunday afternoon
but the software problem was particularly bad running so I had to stop.
Heard N2UN, K2QMF, K2SX.
Band QSOs Pts Cty
1.8 69 207 40
3.5 149 447 57
7 181 543 65
14 283 849 77
21 108 324 53
28 13 39 9
Total 803 2409 301
Score : 725,109
73, Les W2LK
W2YK
ARRLDXCW Score Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2006-02-18
CallSign Used : W2YK
Operator(s) : W2YK
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : CW
Club/Team : Order of Boiled Owls of New York
Band QSOs Pts Cty
3.5 75 225 46
7 63 186 41
14 158 471 72
21 81 243 55
Total 377 1125 214
Score : 240,750
73,
Frank, W2YK
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