12/21/2003 | N9AG First, thanks to Bob, N8NR, and Debbie, KA8CFU, for letting me invade their home for another contest. Bob has been spending a lot of time on the road and hasn't been able to have multi-op events as he did so well for a long time. The station is located on the frontier, a half mile east of Indiana. It is "deep" W8-land.

Last year, Bob completed his 10 meter array. It is a three-stack of 5-element HyGain yagis at 120'/90'/60'. The bottom two are fixed on Europe. That was great for the CQWW CW last month, but the European antennas didn't get much use this time. The top antenna was a killer for the scatter that persisted all weekend and its second lobe worked well for the Es.

I worked 62 Europeans, which I thought was pretty pathetic at the time. With the comments from everyone else it seems like the riches of Midas. One DL, one G, one GM, one SP, a few PAs, OH's and F's was pretty much it, except for amazing signals from YL0A and the three TF's who called.

It snowed pretty hard on Sunday so I wanted to leave for home while it was still light, so I planned to quit at 2200Z. I was getting close to 200 multipliers, so I spent a bit of time scouring the phone band and wound up moving a KP4 and KP2 to get me to 200. I worked T30M and heard him announce he was going to 28050, so I glommed him there when he showed up. DXing is fun too!

Thanks to all for the QSOs! -- N9AG