ARRL International DX Contest CW (2016)

ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: NR4M
Operator(s): K7SV NR4M K4EC K4GMH K4GM KC4D KK4XX K4JK N2YO N3HEE KG3V N3AIU KE3X NG2H K2WK N7TY
Station: NR4M

Class: M/M HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  142    65
   80:  678    94
   40: 1560   124
   20: 1646   124
   15: 1618   125
   10:  340    99
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Total: 5984   631  Total Score = 11,219,811

Club:

Comments:

Had a pretty good time, overall.
Had enough people and plenty of food.
160 meter 8 circle is still 'AOL'.  Frustrating!
Beverages worked really well.  The recent work with filtering and switching
paid off.
Lots of QRN from far off thunder storms Saturday night.  Made things really
tough at times on the low bands.  When the storms causing that thunder arrived
on Sunday about 1700 UTC, the rain static from hard rains made things difficult
on 15 and 20 meters.  This dictated some 'unique' antenna choices.
Tuning on the 80 meter, 4 element delta loop array has gotten quite narrow,
which was not helpful.  The cause needs to be found an fixed before the next
'big one'.

Unfortunately, one of our friends and CW operators, Jack, W0UCE, unexpectedly
passed away on Friday (I believe).  He was hoping to operate with us this
weekend, but had not been feeling well.  We all will miss him.

Thanks for all the Q's.  It was a blast.

73 de Steve, NR4M and the whole 'goat farm' gang.