[LCC] Fwd: ARRLDX CW W5RU(@KN5O) M/2 HP

[Mark Ketchell]

WOW! Great score guys. Heard you several times and it sounded busy. 
Looks like you have a good core group of operators and have built a 
station that works very well and stays together. Congrats and wish 
you luck in the ssb weekend coming up.
73,
Mark, K5ER


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>All:
>
>Here is our 3830 posting..
>
>73 Ted KN5O
>
>
>                       ARRL DX Contest, CW
>
>Call: W5RU
>Operator(s): KN5O K1DW NO5W W5RY K5YG
>Station: KN5O
>
>Class: M/2 HP
>QTH: Covington, LA
>Operating Time (hrs): 48
>
>Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
>-------------------
>   160:   21    17
>    80:  154    62
>    40:  791    92
>    20: 1098   106
>    15: 1427   107
>    10: 1219    91
>-------------------
>Total: 4710   475  Total Score = 6,694,650
>
>Club: Louisiana Contest Club
>
>Comments:
>
>First of all, my thanks to W5RY (Greg), NO5W (Chuck) and Bill (K5YG) for
>traveling to the QTH for the contest.  Also, my thanks to my neighbor K1DW
>(Dallas) for his continued support and encouragement.
>
>Overall great conditions on 20/15/10 led to an all-time high QSO count for us
>in this contest.  With the rising K index on Saturday night, 160 and 80 were
>very challenging.  Thankfully 20 was open almost all night for us. So our
>normal amount of time spent on 160 and 80 was cut in half.
>
>We had one minor glitch with one of the computers/N1MM and lost about 30
>minutes of operating time on both stations.  Other than that, no other
>equipment failures - well maybe some Op failures, but that is to be expected.
>At least no one fell asleep during the graveyard shift.  This year we missed
>one of our regular Ops, Joe W3GW, who couldn't make it this weekend. Joe would
>normally work the graveyard shift with me.
>
>Our mult count was down as compared to last year as we concentrated on running
>and hoped the mults would eventually show up.  We're not set up to have an
>interlocked run and mult station paired on each band and struggle to have
>enough operators anyway.
>
>But for each contest and each year that passes, we get a little 
>better and find
>things we can change and/or improve for the next time.  And even as 
>far south as
>we are, the weather the last couple of months has not permitted us to do any
>antenna work.  Normally we are between 40F and 60F most days and lots of sun.
>Not this year. It has been cold and rainy.. Ideal duck hunting weather..
>
>We were really surprised how long 10M stayed open for us.  At least an hour
>past our sunset, we were still running JAs and deep Asia Qs.  I 
>think we stayed
>on 15M at least 2-3 hours past sunset.  Hope these conditions exist two weeks
>from now for the Phone contest.
>
>Speaking of which, that is the weekend before Mardi-Gras.  If you like
>contesting and want to go to Mardi-Gras, let me know.  I'm not liking phone
>contesting too much these days, but I'll offer the station for multi-op use
>should there be enough interest.
>
>Otherwise, thanks to all of you (the DX) for being there and all of 
>the Qs.  We
>hope that we gave you a mult that you needed. So until the next contest,
>
>73,
>Ted KN5O
>
>for the W5RU Team:
>KN5O (Ted), K1DW (Dallas), W5RY (Greg), NO5W (Chuck) and K5YG (Bill)
>
>
>Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
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