[Moon] K7XQ Contest Results

[K7XQ]

Hello All, 

I had a great time operating all three weekends of the contest. Conditions
were extremely unusual on 144 MHz where signals would very from 20 dB out of
the noise, even moving the S meter at times, to NIL in a matter of seconds
but with no faraday changes. This was why I didn't do too well on 144 but
1296 was stable as a rock with unusually stronger signals. I did much better
on 2304 after the contest after I found a blown/shorted regulator in the
preamp causing a overvoltage condition to the front end device creating
excessive gain and a very high noise figure.

 

I will be submitting as single operator, CW only ,random unassisted, mixed
band entry ( all callsigns included below ).

Any assisted contacts will not be included in the ARRL submitted log but are
located on my webpage logbook.

 

First Contest Weekend: 

 

2304: OK1MS#, KL6M#

 

Second Contest weekend:

 

144: F3VS, IK3MAC, OK1MS#

 

1296; SM4DHN#, K9SLQ, N9JIM, K4QI#, OK1DFC, G3LTF, LA9NEA, HB9Q, OZ6OL,
RW1AW, K1JT, G4CCH, N9JIM, WA6PY

JA4BLC#, JA6CZD#, JR4AEP#, OK1CA, OE5JFL#, RW1AW#, IW2FZR#, OZ4MM, DL4MEA#,
OH2DG#, AL7RT#, N0OY#

 

Third Contest Weekend:

 

432: G3LTF#

 

1296: DF3RU#, K2DH#, K5SO, K5JL, VK3UM#, VE6TA#, VK4AFL#, W2DRZ#, JR4ZZS#,
VA7MM#

 

The 432 array is only partially built as 2 X 9 W.L. XPOL @ 20 dBd total gain
but was pleased that the GS35b amp stayed 

stable with very little power drift on this band at a full 1500 watts.

 

Next contest will alternate the bands more often and try not to stay on any
one band too long. Could have picked up more on 144 

although as K6PF described recently, it is not as populated on CW like it
used to be.

 

Congrats to K2TXB on his only contact during the contest :)))

 

 
K7XQ Jeff
Atwater, CA.
Grid: CM97qi
EME, Satellites, Meteor Scatter
CW, JT-65 , SSB
50 MHz: 2 X M2 6M7 1000 watts 2 X 3-500
144 MHz: 4 X XPOL M2 2MPX28 XPOL 1500 Watts Single GS35b
222 MHz: 1 X M2 5 W.L. 350 watts   Single 8930
432 MHz: 4 X M2 9 W.L. Modified for XPOL 1500 Watts single GS35b 
1296 MHz: 3.0 meter dish VE4MA circular feed 350 Watts single GS15
water-cooled
2304 MHz/2320 MHz/2424 MHz: 3.0 meter dish VE4MA circular feed 200 watts
Spectrian SSPA 
10 GHz: early 2008
 
K7XQ Webpage:  http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html

 

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