ARRL DX Contest, SSB 1996 Call: DL0WW Operator(s): DJ5JK, DK3GI, DL1IAO, DL5IAR Station: DL0WW Class: MS QTH: JN49FO Operating Time (hrs): 48 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 59 23 80: 363 41 40: 344 41 20: 1293 58 15: 13 8 10: 0 0 ------------------- Total: 2072 171 Total Score = 1,062,936 Club: Bavarian Contest Club Comments: TS850 + homebrew PA IC735 + TL922 CT v8.50 on 386 (160) 27m shunt-fed tower, Mag-Loop (RX) (80) Bobtail (NW/SE) (40) 3el M2 Yagi @20m (linear-loaded) (20) 4el M2 Yagi @27m (15) 5el Yagi @25m (10) 6el Yagi @24m The lack of space for Beverages turned out to be the weak point of the station this weekend. 160m yielded surprising openings around sunrise but local noise was too high to copy any 2nd layer stations. Congrats to KV0Q (CO) for making it thru! 20m was so crowded that we were pushed over the whole band a few times. 15m was open to some of the southern states, but not to New England. Until the end we had a good QSO potential on 40m, but BC QRM was worse than ever before. 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com