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2002 ARRLDX SSB



            ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: IO4T
Operator(s): IK4RQJ, IK4VET, IK4XCL, IK4ZHH, IK4ALM, IZ4DIJ
Station: IO4T

Class: M/S HP
QTH: non-North Am
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
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   160:    0     0
    80:  117    25
    40:  256    41
    20:  658    59
    15:  463    57
    10:  938    59
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Total: 2432   241  Total Score = 1,758,336

Club:

Comments:

Equipment Description:

10m 5 yagi
15m 3 quad H.M.
20m 2 quad H.M.
40m 1/4 vertical H.M.
80m 1/4 vertical H.M.
10/40m  vetical
TS950 + TL922

Pure fun for us, much better then 2001 may be because of great work to build
antennas. Nice propagation on 10 with great pileups.

Andy IK4VET

:: PHOTOS ::

Hard work for this contest. We enjoyed IK4RQJ Gus's farm house. For the first time we put up some monoband antenna totally home made.
Some picture (click to wiev full size)

:: 80m quarter wave full size vetical > nice job on 80m, strong signals great pile never eard before using dipoles!

80 meter antenna

:: 40m quarter wave full size vetical > the main idea were to buil a phased array of 2 vetical but ... no time left to do that.

40 meter antenna

:: 20m old cubical quad 2 el. @8m ... on original "old cutted down trunck" support. Very funny solution.

20 meter antenna

:: 15m 3 el. quad @8m > Wind problem on this one, swr ok but pattern and gain? Who knows. Less qso than expected.

:: 10m 105BA by HYGAIN@ 15m > nice antenna, great job.

10 meter antenna

:: During the contest

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