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- Joe Rudi – NK7U
- August 2, 2008
- Pacific Northwest DX Convention
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- Put up 7 separate tower totaling 900 feet in height and where the
furthest tower is over 600 feet from the shack
- Run coax, hardline, rotor and switchbox control cables when you start
measuring their total in miles instead of feet
- Assemble, tune, and raise 52 total elements on 20M across 11 antennas
and 58 total elements on 15M across 12 antennas
- Own, assemble, install, and operate an 80M beam
- Setup and run a network of 5 PC’s, radios, amplifiers, bandpass switches
and other paraphernalia for a 48 hour contest in a high RFI environment
- Keep all these contest stations manned for a 48 hour contest
- Answer 20,000 QSL cards over the last 10 years
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- Climber
- Mechanical Whizz
- Electrician
- Schematic reader
- Basic Electronics
- Network manager
- Cable/connector assembler and solderer
- Propagation expert
- Rigger
- Rope pullers & Muscle men
- Cooks & dishwashers
- Scheduler
- Scrounger
- Mathematician
- Reporter
- PC technician
- Database manager
- Welder
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- The computer era NK7U log – from 1990
- 193,000+ QSO’s in a 16MB DX4WIN log
- 14K 160M, 15K 80M, 30K 40M, 63K 20M, 44K 15M, 29K 10M
- 316 DXCC (including deleted)
- 6 Band DXCC and WAS
- WAZ 10M-15M-20M, 39 on 40M, 38 on 80M, 28 on 160M
- Almost 4,000 prefixes worked
- Country totals USA 76,000 -- JA 40,000 – VE 7,500 -- DL 5,500 -- I
3,700 – G 2,600 – LU 2,000 -- EA 1,800 – PY 1,700
- Almost 20,000 QSL’s received and 100% confirmed
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