“Storm Watch”
Newsletter of NZ1U – The
Barnstormers Contest Group
“The
Barnstormers News”
Volume 6
No.3 February 28, 2001
ARRL DX CW Initial
Results…
It
seems like last week we just did the CW weekend of this classic! We have had a
problem merging all the logs but a preliminary pass through the logs shows the
following totals:
QSOs – 4392 Multipliers – 519 Points
– 6,814,989
Conditions
were exceptional! Many new records were set. Our own score is by far the best we
have done. My initial thoughts are that we increased our score by more than the
conditions enhanced. Increasing QSOs 30%, 15% more multipliers, and final score
increase by almost 40%!!!
What
did we do? We RAN. We will look closer at the logs but I feel we will find that
many multipliers called in while we were running. More analysis later. One
interesting note. A healthy K1EBY outran the operator at KC1XX for quite a few
hours on Saturday. Mark also had some outstanding hours. Next year Frank gets
no shrimp to eat. We believe it was this that led to his illness and our
handicap of Sunday.
ARRL DX SSB This Weekend…
I
hope we have all rested up for the next marathon. This weekend is the SSB
version. As usual we will be in the Multi/2 Class. It looks like for operators
we will have KB1H, NB1U, N1BU, N1XS, AA1CE, KB1DFB, K1EBY, and W1TJL. Part time
Ops will be KE1LI and maybe NT1N. Dave Patton, NT1N, is without an argument one
of the premier operators around. He has promised to come over for a 4 hour stint
and hopefully give us pointers on getting that rate up.
I
am picking up Paul amp on Thursday night. We have the Alpha and N1BU’s L4B. As
most of you know we lost Mark’s amp on Sunday afternoon and the TL-922 arrived
DOA at the start of the contest.
Bring
your drink of choice, snacks, and we will work out the meals.
We
also lost half of the reflector element on the 40 meter beam. Kim has repaired
the broken pieces and if the weather cooperates will we fix this antenna on
Saturday.
We
have worked on a plan of attack which of course is subject to change depending
on band conditions. Ten meters has been not so good the last few days.
Again
our strategy will be to run. Let’s keep those rates up.
If
there is any other points or questions please get back to me ASAP so we can
take care of them.
73
Dick