START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: TR Log POST Version 6.59 CALLSIGN: WM5R CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 15M LOW SSB CATEGORY-OVERLAY: TB-WIRES CLAIMED-SCORE: 15732 CLUB: Central Texas DX and Contest Club NAME: Kenneth Harker ADDRESS: 927 East 46th Street Apt. 102 ADDRESS: Austin, TX 78751 OPERATORS: WM5R SOAPBOX: So many other things were going on this weekend that I only had a few SOAPBOX: hours to get on the air. I operated from N5XU, the club station at SOAPBOX: the University of Texas at Austin. The antenna I had available was SOAPBOX: a 40 meter dipole, which normally is considered usable on 15 meters. SOAPBOX: This dipole, though, was tuned for the SSB portion of the band, SOAPBOX: near 7.250 MHz, which would make it resonant closer to 21.750 MHz SOAPBOX: than it would be to the upper edge of the 15 meter band (21.450 SOAPBOX: MHz.) I did not have an antenna tuner available. According to my SOAPBOX: wattmeter, the radio put about 40 watts out. I tried to run SOAPBOX: probably a dozen times, and only a couple of times could I get SOAPBOX: more than a few callers, even though I was on frequencies SOAPBOX: that sounded perfectly clear to me. When I was searching and SOAPBOX: pouncing, many station could not hear me. Mostly, DX stations SOAPBOX: could not hear me, but many W1s were deaf, and one WB9 was S8 in SOAPBOX: my receiver and kept calling CQ in my face. Stations in the west SOAPBOX: and midwest were much better about hearing me when I called. SOAPBOX: The best DX I worked was HK0OEP, who must not have been spotted on SOAPBOX: packet, and was kind of underneath some other station, but he heard SOAPBOX: me just fine. QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1843 WM5R 59 1 N3HBX 59 849 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1843 WM5R 59 2 WB9Z 59 1724 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1845 WM5R 59 3 WT6V 59 1747 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1850 WM5R 59 4 TM2V 59 342 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1851 WM5R 59 5 N9LCR 59 287 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1851 WM5R 59 6 NF4A 59 488 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1856 WM5R 59 7 N2XD 59 915 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1857 WM5R 59 8 K3WW 59 287 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1858 WM5R 59 9 W5AA/TI8 59 585 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1900 WM5R 59 10 KD0S 59 648 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1900 WM5R 59 11 NS4W 59 1819 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1900 WM5R 59 12 NX9T 59 454 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1901 WM5R 59 13 KH7R 59 1648 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1901 WM5R 59 14 KN1DX 59 2369 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1903 WM5R 59 15 HK0OEP 59 149 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1905 WM5R 59 16 KD7GGZ 59 303 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1909 WM5R 59 17 NR6O 59 949 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1911 WM5R 59 18 OT2A 59 1194 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1912 WM5R 59 19 WZ7ZR 59 933 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1913 WM5R 59 20 WC4E 59 1693 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1913 WM5R 59 21 N3HXQ 59 812 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1915 WM5R 59 22 KM3T 59 2308 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1915 WM5R 59 23 N2VV 59 1269 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1915 WM5R 59 24 WR3L 59 431 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1916 WM5R 59 25 KR1G 59 1779 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1917 WM5R 59 26 KQ2M 59 2179 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1917 WM5R 59 27 N2NT 59 238 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1918 WM5R 59 28 WN9O 59 656 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1918 WM5R 59 29 WA7YAZ 59 708 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1919 WM5R 59 30 NV4X 59 1228 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1920 WM5R 59 31 K5TR 59 768 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1923 WM5R 59 32 VC6R 59 1379 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1923 WM5R 59 33 KT6RU 59 1386 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1932 WM5R 59 34 NI2W 59 467 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1933 WM5R 59 35 WE9V 59 2141 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1934 WM5R 59 36 N4MO 59 487 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1937 WM5R 59 37 DL6RAI 59 588 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1938 WM5R 59 38 WX5S 59 588 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1939 WM5R 59 39 W4MYA 59 837 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1940 WM5R 59 40 KC1F 59 324 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1944 WM5R 59 41 WB6LMN 59 117 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1944 WM5R 59 42 N3AIU 59 386 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1945 WM5R 59 43 KT8O 59 315 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1949 WM5R 59 44 N4ABC/AE 59 8 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1950 WM5R 59 45 N4JED 59 296 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1951 WM5R 59 46 KT4ZB 59 206 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 1951 WM5R 59 47 KG6AR 59 239 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2015 WM5R 59 48 K3ZO 59 1625 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2020 WM5R 59 49 F6KDF 59 1034 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2023 WM5R 59 50 NK7U 59 638 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2025 WM5R 59 51 S50A 59 1539 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2028 WM5R 59 52 ZF2AH 59 1329 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2029 WM5R 59 53 KD3TB 59 393 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2030 WM5R 59 54 HG1S 59 1784 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2031 WM5R 59 55 CT9M 59 682 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2035 WM5R 59 56 N2GC 59 625 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2036 WM5R 59 57 AE6Y 59 631 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2039 WM5R 59 58 K2PLF 59 886 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2049 WM5R 59 59 WK4R 59 2014 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2049 WM5R 59 60 NJ1F 59 1747 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2050 WM5R 59 61 NZ1U 59 602 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2056 WM5R 59 62 DL2ARD 59 2063 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2058 WM5R 59 63 OT2T 59 1294 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2101 WM5R 59 64 TM5C 59 845 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2102 WM5R 59 65 DK2OY 59 1214 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2104 WM5R 59 66 KG4FPJ 59 242 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2105 WM5R 59 67 S57O 59 1083 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2105 WM5R 59 68 N3FX 59 199 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2106 WM5R 59 69 KE9S 59 51 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2106 WM5R 59 70 WA1NPZ 59 417 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2106 WM5R 59 71 IH9/OL7N 59 1571 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2110 WM5R 59 72 8P6EX 59 509 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2112 WM5R 59 73 W6QEU 59 595 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2113 WM5R 59 74 KF9YL 59 112 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2114 WM5R 59 75 N6WIN 59 642 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2118 WM5R 59 76 TM2Y 59 1185 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2119 WM5R 59 77 VE4HAZ 59 171 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2121 WM5R 59 78 AB9CC 59 44 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2127 WM5R 59 79 HC1OT 59 1267 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2128 WM5R 59 80 IK3UNA 59 762 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2137 WM5R 59 81 JI3OPA 59 1263 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2141 WM5R 59 82 K6HNZ 59 658 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2144 WM5R 59 83 K4LJ 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2147 WM5R 59 84 AI7B 59 553 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2150 WM5R 59 85 N3DG 59 332 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2150 WM5R 59 86 VE7SCC 59 1177 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2154 WM5R 59 87 VE6AO 59 667 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2157 WM5R 59 88 W6YRA 59 227 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2158 WM5R 59 89 VE5RI 59 841 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2200 WM5R 59 90 JI2ZJS 59 1154 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2201 WM5R 59 91 JH1EAQ 59 1142 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2202 WM5R 59 92 YW4M 59 1849 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2203 WM5R 59 93 JI2ZEY 59 979 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2203 WM5R 59 94 LT1F 59 903 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2204 WM5R 59 95 JH7LRS 59 1552 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2205 WM5R 59 96 JR3NZC 59 304 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2208 WM5R 59 97 N1SNB 59 770 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2208 WM5R 59 98 K8EP 59 684 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2216 WM5R 59 99 KB8KE 59 42 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2217 WM5R 59 100 N4YDU 59 411 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2218 WM5R 59 101 K9JIG 59 162 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2220 WM5R 59 102 WA1RR 59 386 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2220 WM5R 59 103 W4WTB 59 1002 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2221 WM5R 59 104 ZF2AF 59 2753 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2222 WM5R 59 105 KD4STC 59 36 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2225 WM5R 59 106 KE4USA 59 12 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2228 WM5R 59 107 VE3AGC 59 422 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2230 WM5R 59 108 KR7O 59 111 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2231 WM5R 59 109 KQ0Q 59 110 QSO: 21000 PH 2002-03-30 2232 WM5R 59 110 AA8PA 59 759 END-OF-LOG: