Band conditions were not great, but my local noise level was downright oppressive, as high as S9+20dB on 40m. Bad transformer out on the pole? I dunno. Thankfully the K3 has the best NB system of any radio I've ever used, so I was able to knock it down to a mere (!) S7 or so and manage to hear stations near the noise level (thank you Elecraft!), otherwise it was going to be a short test for me.
N1MM Logger once again makes me wonder how people operated contests before contest logging programs.
DXCC: 26 Countries. Only new one, I think, was the "new" PJ4 Bonaire (PJ4NX on 20 and 40).
WAS: 32 States (per QRZ). Got some needed state/band combinations, I'm sure.
QRV: Approx. 16 hrs, for 176 QSOs -- not exactly big gun performance. Sometimes I felt like I was working QRP. Into a dummy load. With bad coax...
- 1230-1430 - 20m
- 1430-1830 - 15m
- 1830-2115 - Break
- 2115-0130 - 20m
- 0130-0300 - 40m
- 0300-0600 - 20m
- 0600-0700 - Break
- 0700-0745 - 40m
Final Claimed Score: 30,876
(From 1978 WRTH)
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