K3LR Multi Multi K3LR team finished #2 W/VE BAND QSOs DXCC OPs 160 83 49 N3BJ 80 339 101 K3LR 40 329 99 NA8V + N0BSH 20 1486 157 WA8YVR + WD8IXE 15 844 140 K3UA + NI8L 10 508 74 WR3G + KG8GO Totals 3589 620 = 6,675,540 points *ARRL DX PHONE K3LR 1995 * *WWV Day 1 SF89 A=18 Day 2 SF84 A=14 This was a very good contest for the K3LR team. I feel honered to have the company of some of the best operators in the mid west, all of whom came to K3LR with the idea that we can get close to the top. It is a thrill to compete with the N2RM and W3LPL multi teams. The operators at N2RM have always helped us. During the off season they tell us that we can do well and during the contest they always encourage our operators to do their best. I cannot say enough about how much enjoyment I had, operating 80 meters, and talking to Sal, WM2H at N2RM. This guy is amazing! Year after year, he plugs away on 75, slugging it out. He fires me up during the contest and I feel like he is operating right beside me. I'll never forget the day (about 8 years ago), when I visited W3LPL's new QTH. My wife (Sandra) screamed so much that I backed out of Frank's driveway and went down the road to calm her down! She could not get over the fact of such a "nice house" with all of those "tall towers". I just could not get over the fact of all of the "nice tall towers". Once she settled down, we went back and visited with Frank. Frank has been a great inspiration to me and has never failed to help me with questions and problems. These days Sandra doesn't need to drive very far to see "nice towers". As the 80 meter operator, I got to watch the intensity of Allen, N3BJ as he dragged over 80 weak QSOs out of a the ultimate noise factory, 160 meters. And Mike, N0BSH with Greg NA8V as they beat 40 meters into the ground, staying up way past sunrise both mornings to work every last VK/ZL and catching a QSO with DU on the long path. Then there was the 20 meter overnight man, Steve, WD8IXE who tried lots of beam headings and tons of CQs all night long, sometimes to work 1 station in an hour. Steve slept very little and worked with Pat, WA8YVR "Mr. Intensity" all day on 20, working guys and sending them to "Try 10 meter scatter QSOs". When I was around during the afternoon, the 15 meter team of Phil, K3UA and Scott, NI8L was really something. Talk about intense! Sunday morning WR3G gave them a crash course in Spanish so they could work more of our South American friends. Phil and Scott ate the Spanish up, often providing humor to the DX stations. Then asking them to move to 20. What can you say about the king of dead bands, 10 meters? Scott, WR3G came to the 28 MHz operating position with one mission...win the band. And win the band he did! For 6 hours during the contest, Scott had the high rate band, 10 meters! Not only rate, but a great multiplier with help from Bob, KG8GO. Scott worked a scatter JA, which is always a neat trick. Work on antenna improvements starts in 2 weeks. Another 80 meter antenna, a stack for the 2nd 40 meter station, new beverages for 160, more 10 meter 2nd station antennas and new 10 meter beams for the run station, (we'll add 3 elements making the array 24 elements) is just some of the work that we hope will get us closer this fall. You guys (and gals) make this the best hobby! BREAKDOWN Q/m K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL PHONE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 1/1 37/22 56/23 69/41 34/16 ..... 197/103 197/103 1 3/2 23/9 39/15 81/12 5/0 . 151/38 348/141 2 5/4 33/9 26/12 46/6 . . 110/31 458/172 3 11/9 26/9 14/5 14/1 . . 65/24 523/196 4 9/6 21/6 17/7 . . . 47/19 570/215 5 8/5 29/2 8/1 5/1 . . 50/9 620/224 6 11/4 29/6 9/2 1/0 . . 50/12 670/236 7 6/2 11/2 28/7 1/1 . . 46/12 716/248 8 1/1 7/4 11/5 1/0 ..... ..... 20/10 736/258 9 1/1 6/5 6/3 . . . 13/9 749/267 10 3/2 6/4 6/1 8/5 . . 23/12 772/279 11 1/0 6/3 4/2 79/18 7/7 . 97/30 869/309 12 . 2/0 8/2 124/12 69/36 . 203/50 1072/359 13 . . . 89/4 56/15 11/5 156/24 1228/383 14 . . . 59/2 77/11 33/15 169/28 1397/411 15 . . . 46/4 134/9 8/0 188/13 1585/424 16 .... ..... ..... 66/3 108/6 17/9 191/18 1776/442 17 . . . 92/4 72/2 44/16 208/22 1984/464 18 . . . 80/5 40/2 7/4 127/11 2111/475 19 . . . 73/4 30/4 57/5 160/13 2271/488 20 . . . 34/2 17/3 51/5 102/10 2373/498 21 . . 1/0 28/4 17/8 23/3 69/15 2442/513 22 . . 2/2 25/7 11/4 12/1 50/14 2492/527 23 3/1 22/1 9/0 15/0 16/3 18/3 83/8 2575/535 0 .... 11/1 2/1 16/2 8/2 3/0 40/6 2615/541 1 2/2 14/2 4/0 11/1 4/0 . 35/5 2650/546 2 . 4/0 4/0 11/0 2/0 . 21/0 2671/546 3 . 8/4 4/1 8/0 . . 20/5 2691/551 4 4/1 3/0 8/2 8/1 . . 23/4 2714/555 5 5/1 6/2 5/2 4/1 . . 20/6 2734/561 6 2/2 16/2 4/0 . . . 22/4 2756/565 7 1/1 8/3 9/1 1/0 . . 19/5 2775/570 8 1/0 4/0 3/0 ..... ..... ..... 8/0 2783/570 9 2/2 4/1 8/0 3/0 . . 17/3 2800/573 10 1/1 5/2 8/0 . . . 14/3 2814/576 11 2/0 2/1 2/1 48/2 4/2 . 58/6 2872/582 12 . . 2/0 47/1 8/0 . 57/1 2929/583 13 . . 1/1 47/1 11/3 8/4 67/9 2996/592 14 . . . 58/2 10/1 11/0 79/3 3075/595 15 . . . 49/2 21/1 18/2 88/5 3163/600 16 .... ..... ..... 55/1 11/2 27/0 93/3 3256/603 17 . . . 15/0 7/0 39/0 61/0 3317/603 18 . . . 8/1 13/0 36/0 57/1 3374/604 19 . . . 10/1 10/0 33/1 53/2 3427/606 20 . . . 15/2 13/1 32/1 60/4 3487/610 21 . . . 5/0 10/1 19/0 34/1 3521/611 22 . 1/0 5/1 20/2 15/0 1/0 42/3 3563/614 23 1/1 3/1 17/2 20/1 12/1 . 53/6 3616/620 DAY1 63/38 258/82 244/87 1036/136 693/126 281/66 ..... 2575/535 DAY2 21/11 89/19 86/12 459/21 159/14 227/8 . 1041/85 TOT 84/49 347/101 330/99 1495/157 852/140 508/74 . 3616/620 73, Tim K3LR *