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Manfred Wolf
DOK: T13
HSC #1579
AGCW #2626
RTC #56

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ARRL10m 2002:


Call: DF0WA OPs: DF5UL, DL1GBQ, DL2MEH
Category: M/S
Hours: abt 20



Band QSOs Mults      
10/CW 569 114      
10/SSB 832 143      
Total: 1401 257      
-> 1.012.580



Rig: IC781 via stackmatch driving IC4KL to 7ele@18m and Alpha78 to 4ele@10m 
       
Comments:

We wanted to use the station for a Multi Operator effort for the first time and I thought everything was prepared... I was wrong.
On friday before the contest we met at the station for the first time, because I wanted to show the others some details and talk a bit about stategy.
DL1GBQ planned to work on saturday morning, DF5UL saturday afternoon and myself on sunday.

Then the bad surprise: the power cable was gone... we installed a "normal" 220V cable for the moment and in the next morning a spare  380V cable with a power adapter from DL1GBQ should arrive. Unfortunatelly the cable had a failure that blew away the ICOM amp when swiching on power at abt 5:45Z.
So saturday morning was done with 150W from the IC781 until by the help of Ulrich, DG4BUL the original cable arrived again.
Also packet cluster didn`t work because my packet trx was out of order, too.

When I started on sunday all was in normal shape again, only the second antenna missing because of a lack of a 2nd amp.
Because of our problems there were plenty of stations left and I was able to run almost 1000 QSOs on the 2nd day...

Finally ended up 2nd DL behind DF9ZP.


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