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CQ WW 2003
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CQ World Wide 2003 MM @ K5NA

I participated in the CQ WW 2003 phone contest by joining the K5NA multi-multi effort in Manor, Texas. Richard (K5NA) and Susan (K5DU) King have a great location in the middle of some farm land just east of Austin. Richard has a great station in his garage/ham shack that can accommodate a large MM effort. We had 6 radios and amplifiers on the 6 contest bands. 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. 

This was a great time and great learning experience for me being relatively new to contesting. Here is a link to the pictures and commentary from WM5R Ken Harker: http://www.wm5r.org/photos/2003_cqww_k5na/

Here are the comments the Richard made to the 3830 reflector along with our claimed score. 

 

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K5NA
Operator(s): K5NA,K5DU,KI5DR,K2UR,K6NR,W5MF,KC5YKX,N5GM,WM5R,K5PI,W5JEN
Station: K5NA
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Austin, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 142 11 25
80: 195 19 48
40: 305 30 106
20: 815 34 124
15: 1315 34 128
10: 1233 34 130
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Total: 4005 162 561 Total Score = 6,246,720

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:
This was our first attempt to ever try M/M from Texas and we had, mostly, a
younger crew that was inexperienced at M/M. But we were all learning the tricks
of the M/M category and gained some valuable knowledge for the next effort.
Murphy struck us slightly with serious WriteLog networking problems before the
start. We had to isolate the 40M station because the XP computer on 40M didn't
want to talk with any of the other stations. 
Then the amplifier for 10M smoked at the start leaving me to scurry on a 60 mile
round-trip to borrow a replacement. Things went smoothly then until Sunday when
a thunderstorm shut us completely down for 45 minutes. And finally, the 160M
transceiver went to the RF Gods late Sunday afternoon.
But we all had a great time. Conditions exceeded all predictions here.
73, Richard - K5NA