Call: W8FN
Operator(s):  
Station: W8FN

Added: 21/Feb/2012
Contest: ARRL DX CONTEST, CW
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: TX
Operating time: 

Summary: 
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:    0     0
   80:    1     1
   40:   54    24
   20:  111    47
   15:  103    44
   10:   22    14
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Total:  291   130  
Total Score = 113,100
Club: 

Soapbox: 

Just fooled around for a few hours
this time doing 100% S&P, mainly SO2R
S&P practice. I found out the first
night that the inverted L still won't
match on 80 meters. It looks like I'll
need to rig a trap in the thing to
make it work right on 80. The rotator
direction pot finally bit the dust
Sunday after months of erratic
operation. I have a rebuild in the
pipeline; hope it shows up pretty
soon.

Conditions seemed pretty good
Saturday, not so good Sunday. EU
stations were really weak on 20 the
second day. As usual, the K3/P3 combo
performed amazingly well. It's really
great to be able to work S1 DX
stations just a few hundred Hz away
from S9+40 stateside Multiop signals.
The P3 is really the S&P man's friend.
Having the KPA500 also made the
difference between being heard and not
being heard. Running just 200W to a
vertical on the 2nd radio resulted in
a good many non-QSOs with the weak EU
guys. More ERP = more QSOs!