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1	Teamwork and the Art of Owning a Multi-op Contest Station And – how does this relate to Major League Baseball anyway? Joe Rudi – NK7U August 2, 2008 Pacific Northwest DX Convention
2	NK7U Operating Career From Baseball to Ham Radio
3	Ham Radio is like Baseball because It really takes a team to… 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
4	The many different skills needed on a multiop team 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
5	AB 105 tower requires a team to get the big stacks
6	Wire, cables, and connectors… A team effort in many ways
7	Antennas… Many different skills on a team
8	Raising an 80M beam … is very much a team effort
9	Plenty of Antennas
10	Setup the operating stations a culmination of many skills on the team
11	Assembling a contesting team
12	Operator scheduling – organizing a team
13	The log and QSL’ing… Part of the team effort of any multi-op 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
14	The Web site… WWW.NK7U.COM a way to keep and share a team history
15	Thank You