KC5YKX

Reid Hill   1042 Burkshire Dr   Corpus Christi   Texas   78412

Nueces County   EL17HR   CQ Zone 04   ITU Zone 07

ARRL DX 2002
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The ARRL DX Phone contest was held the first weekend in March 2002. Mark Mireles, AD5CA, and myself set out to participate in our first  HF contest. At least it was mine as Mark had worked the 2001 Sweepstakes from his truck in a lite effort. We really just wanted to get the feel of contesting and were not really going for a good score. We worked it in a shared radio fashion. I used my call and he used his. We were mostly looking for entities to add to our DXCC list. We got a pot load.  I worked mostly 10 meters with a sprinkling of 15. It was fun and I was hooked to the contest scene. Equipment for this contest was as follows:

Icom 746, Dentron MLA2500, Dentron MT3000A, Mosely TA-33 Tribander, A99 10M vertical and YPLog.

Here are the results I did not send in to the ARRL:

Band     QSOs     Mults     Total

                                                                                  21           32            15         1440

                                                                                  28          262          78        59670

                                                                              Total       294          93         80073