2004 ARRL International DX Contest (Phone)
04/04/2004 |
K6FAF
First Arrl Dx Contest under this callsign, worked to figure out QTH capabilities (3550 feet a.s.l., 100w into a 3/3 10/15/20 at 18 feet over a down slope towards EU and AF, and an up slope towards AS and OC, under 5% for 15miles)
Worked 12 hours total, 150 handpicked qso for 89 countries on 10/15/20 and 1 (for fun "HP") on 40m dipol. 15 new dxcc on 20 including EX, UA2, ER and UW. 20m on 3-7-04 was the best I have ever heard in 26 years of "hamming". EU was open for 8 hours, not only the Big Guns. 15m was normal, EU towards SP and YO as ODX. 10m no EU/DX.
Got mislead by VQ5A, at first, but my logger asked for DXCC, so I found out it was "The big gun in my front yard" (:-),hihi. Never heard more than noise from 3b9, although I worked them before the test. All in all, need higher mast, no linear needed from here, had lotsa fun not working the Carribean...they were always 59-59++.
I guess, the autumn WPX 2004 will be my first try to get into the list; with rotor-turnable antenna at 30 feet (I hope).
TNX to all the dx that picked me up. -- K6FAF
Worked 12 hours total, 150 handpicked qso for 89 countries on 10/15/20 and 1 (for fun "HP") on 40m dipol. 15 new dxcc on 20 including EX, UA2, ER and UW. 20m on 3-7-04 was the best I have ever heard in 26 years of "hamming". EU was open for 8 hours, not only the Big Guns. 15m was normal, EU towards SP and YO as ODX. 10m no EU/DX.
Got mislead by VQ5A, at first, but my logger asked for DXCC, so I found out it was "The big gun in my front yard" (:-),hihi. Never heard more than noise from 3b9, although I worked them before the test. All in all, need higher mast, no linear needed from here, had lotsa fun not working the Carribean...they were always 59-59++.
I guess, the autumn WPX 2004 will be my first try to get into the list; with rotor-turnable antenna at 30 feet (I hope).
TNX to all the dx that picked me up. -- K6FAF
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