Call: W5RU
Operator(s):  
Station: W5RU

Added: 30/Nov/2009
Contest: CQ WORLDWIDE DX CONTEST, CW
Class: M/S HP
QTH: LA
Operating time: 42.85

Summary: 
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   23    10       13
   80:  124    19       63
   40:  466    36      123
   20:  583    35      130
   15:  230    30       90
   10:   48    11       16
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Total: 1474   141      435  
Total Score = 2,293,056
Club: 

Soapbox: 

Le bon temps roule!!!

This was our
second year into CQWW contesting from
South Louisiana.  Dallas,
K1DW and I
started it off Friday evening, only to
immediately discover that N1MM was not
showing Mults or Q’s on 40M and 20M.
 We basically lost the first hour
troubleshooting, only to have to
uninstall and re-install
N1MM,
v.9.11.0 (and I had just used it
a week ago with out problems).

So
while I was doing that, K1DW operated
on the second station (FT1000MP/ALPHA
99) and forgo using the 756PROIII with
which he was familiar.  We mostly
S&P’d, as our geographical location
and CW listening skills are challenged
at best.

On Saturday Dave, W5XU came
over from Baton Rouge and operated for
about 6 hours.  It was his first time
here using the station and software. 
About noon,
Don, W5FKX joined us from
New Orleans and relieved Dave.  It was
also Don’s first time here using the
station and N1MM.  It appears he too
had fun.  On Sunday, I was joined by
Dr. Gil, N5UK from Kiln, MS.  It was
also his first time here as well and I
think he really got hooked into
contesting.  I was really hoping that
Jan, W5EV would join us if he was
feeling well enough.  Jan is a crack
CW op (55-60WPM), but unfortunately he
is still dealing with the effects of
his chemo treatments.  We missed him,
but continue to wish him well.

Our
goal was to go the entire 48 hours and
make 2000 Q’s.  We almost made the
time, but fell far short on the Q’s.
 There were plenty of stations to
work,
but I just ran out of steam on
Sunday morning with no relief Op.  So
our score speaks for itself – better
than last year as KN5O, but still a
very long way to go and lots of room
for improvement (a new shack and
antennas are planned for next year
specifically set up for
contesting.)

Band conditions were
decent for us.  Noise levels on 80M
and 160M were great compared to last
year.  My quickly built inverted-L
with 3 raised radials did not perform
well at all.

It was good to see 15M
open to our area, but 10M conditions
were again disappointing - actually
lousy.  Because of the poor
propagation, we could not hear many of
the 10M stations spotted by the US
stations up north.

Speaking for the
W5RU team (K1DW, W5XU, W5FKX, N5UK,
KN5O), thanks to all for the Q’s and
best wishes for the Holiday
season..

73 de Ted, KN5O