davebuo 5:57pm #19318  
A shoulder injury meant I wasn’t able to put up the tribander on a temporary mast, and I wasn’t set up for SO2R so I thought I’d just spend a few hours here and there, but of course the Commonwealth Contest always sucks you in! So I emded up doing a full 12 hours in three main periods.My doublet has a switch to strap the feeders for 80m (and 160m but not in this contest) and on my first foray onto 40m I got a report of wideband noise, went outside to see evidence of arcing around the switch so I quickly had to put up a 40m dipole on another mast. Later, the DC line to the switch failed so I had to replace that in the dark and rain.Like others, I found 80m to be especially poor, and it seems I did well to work two ZLs in the morning long path opening. Not many VKs to be worked on 40m long path, I had already worked most of them the previous evening though the Tesla contest made things really difficult. Good to see so much activity on 10m and I think I missed some of the openings, not expecting the band to be any good at those times.
Pleased to work both 6Y5FS and 6Y5HN, and also to get ZD7BG on two bands.73 Dave G4BUO
 BAND QSO BONUS HQ DUP POINTS AVG
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   80  24    12  5   0    120 5.0
   40  43    29  5   0    215 5.0
   20  84    47  7   0    420 5.0
   15  43    24  6   0    215 5.0
   10  39    24  4   0    195 5.0
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TOTAL 233   136 27   0   1165 5.0
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        FINAL SCORE: 4 425 K3 + Acom 2000A
DXLog
80m tee
40m inverted vee up 30ft
20m delta loop
15, 10m 60ft doublet up 33ft
LZ1AQ receive antenna