ARRL DX Contest, CW 1996

Call: DL1IAO
Operator(s): DL1IAO
Station: DK1NO

Class: SO 80M HP
QTH: nr Stuttgart
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:  519    45
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Total:  519    45  Total Score = 70,065

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

TS930 + Alpha78
CT v8.50 on 386 notebook

3el Vertical Array

RX: bidirectional 200m Beverage

With a lot of fine-tuning of the TX antenna the contest had certainly started
at least one week before 00Z. The element tuning was not finished until Friday
night and I lost the long NW Beverage in a snow storm. This cost a lot of QSOs
as the vertical array was not particularly quiet for receiving, and the short
NW Beverage helped only occasionally.

As a sidenote, I needed the help of a farmer to get my car out of a snowdrift
on Monday - not a good weekend to win a contest! 


73,

Stefan
DL1IAO@contesting.com
http://www.dl1iao.com