This contest offers the most fun you can have with a low loop of wire. As all contests, it’s a part time effort because my Sunday is a little busy with production requirements at church. I’m really bummed that I missed 3 sections.
PR – Heard a couple of stations from PR with huge pileups. They never heard me.
SFL – Heard N4BP on both 20 and 15 and tried over and over to work him. I think he’s a little deaf.
NL – The VO1 station was heard but propagation was never the best.
My runs on 80 amazed me for my equipment. 40 was the money band. 20 was QRM city. Had several stations steal my run frequency, acknowledging that they were doing so because they have high power and more rights. I mean one guy actually told me that. 15 was QSB land and I lost several QSO’s because reports could never be finished before a complete fade.
My first contest as a part of the NCCC! While I’m outside the ARRL distance circle, it still drove me to work harder. I hooked to the cluster to spot interesting stuff, but I don’t think we ended up spotting very much in the long run.
FT-950
40-Meter Full Wave Sky Loop at 25ft
N1MM
Band Q Sec
3.5 73 6
7 144 33
14 91 23
21 27 15
Total Q's; 335 Sec: 77 Claimed Score: 51, 436
15.92 Hours of operating