published by n2yo on Mon, 2017-12-04 00:24
Normally, K7SV and I do this contest as a team. This year Larry decided that he wanted to try it from his home QTH, so I was on my own. I figured this was going to be 'interesting' as I really don't do nights well at all. For a while my EU Beverage had been working/not working and we were not having any luck figuring out why. Sure as heck, when I started the contest I did not have any EU Beverage. As it was, things went OK, if you subtract no Beverage. Good activity from both US and DX sides.
published by n2yo on Mon, 2017-11-27 23:29
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: NR4M
Operator(s): N2YO VE3CX NR4M K4QS WS6X K7SV K4GM K4GMH KA4RRU
Station: NR4M
Class: M/M HP
QTH: va
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 199 17 69
80: 1073 25 111
40: 1824 36 141
20: 1826 36 139
15: 945 29 121
10: 81 13 23
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Total: 5948 156 604 Total Score = 12,518,720
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Thanks for the Q's
published by n2yo on Tue, 2017-11-21 01:21
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW Call: NR4M Operator(s): NR4M Station: NR4M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total: 610 Sections = 83 Total Score = 101,260
published by n2yo on Tue, 2017-08-15 02:16
WAE DX Contest, CW
Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M, K7SV, W7IY, KN4DEB, N2YO
Station: NR4M
Class: M/S HP
QTH: va
Operating Time (hrs): 41
Summary:
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
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80: 117 23 112
40: 563 572 132
20: 884 993 98
15: 25 0 40
10:
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Total: 1589 1586 382 Total Score = 1,212,850
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Thanks for the Q's
Steve
published by n2yo on Mon, 2017-08-07 01:02
Was Arnie's, KN4DEB, second ever contest. Very new ham.
The late hours really killed me. Got bed after 2 AM and back up at 6 AM!
published by n2yo on Thu, 2017-06-01 01:27
As sometime happens with CQWW WPX CW following Hamvention, there was some international flair to the NR4M operation this year. We had Mattieu CE3MVW and Andy YO3JR join us. Add to that KO8SCA, K4GMH, N3UA, CE2MVF, N3AIU, KN3DEB, N2YO, KG3V, KA4RRU, K4GM, W7IY, K7SV and NR4M to round out the list of great ops.
published by n2yo on Mon, 2017-03-20 00:07
Russian DX Contest
Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: va
Operating Time (hrs): 6:00
published by n2yo on Tue, 2017-02-21 02:27
This was a pleasant change. In the past, I've lamented because they're a bunch of guys that operate from with varying abilities and we just never could get a good, solid team together. I guess the stars were in alignment, as we could not done any better with the number and abilities of the ops that participated. At the end, we still had 7 ops sitting in front of radios. This was the first time most of the ops dealt with the two stations on a band.
published by n2yo on Wed, 2017-02-01 00:15
Steve NR4M, Larry K7SV and Ken, K4ZW, split operating time. Steve ran from 22Z until around 03Z and then 10Z until after sunrise both days. Larry ran from 03Z until about 10Z both. Ken came by Saturday evening and operated some of Steve's shift. Noise on the band was very minimal with the transmit antenna being very effective on receive. Conditions were very good within the US both days and west coast signals were
loud.
published by n2yo on Sun, 2017-01-15 10:57
Trying to get the hang of SO2R, but wasn't in the cards. Just before the contest my Flex 6700 decided to turn itself into a 'brick'.
Still not a lot of antenna choices here for domestic contests. 20 meters is the worst, with the lowest antenna I can turn west is at 120 feet. The lower in frequency I go, the more appropriate the antenna choices.
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