Max N4ML

A bit late to the party but I am quite proud of what me and the rest of the W1HQ team did as an MSLP in ARRL DX Phone. A lot of ops new to contesting, and they all seemed to have fun with it.
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10m cleaned up finally. 1159qs for the contest overall.

On my second shift at W1HQ for ARRL DX and the dayshift has been much better to me than the first night. Having a good run on 10 even with LP. #hamradio

Yeah, at least in the US every hamfest usually has a card checker, but thats probably not the case on your side of the pond haha.

You can always go dig up those cards and get them checked by a LOTW card checker, which will put them into lotw, and also confirm them for awards.

well, the single band… lol

Nice to work ya on saturday, bands were quite hot.

Based on ARRL 10m raw scores, I’m #3 W4 and #1 for Tennessee in my category! Quite nice for an 11 hour effort in a 24 hour contest.

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Within an 8 mile radius means it might be coming by skywave if its at night or NVIS during the day. My guess is some industrial plants spurious emissions.

I need to start. Gotta get my code in shape for NAQP… lol

Yeah, I’ve been lucky enough to use some nicer radios recently during contests, like the flex 6600m and yaesu 101d. Still need to sit down with a k3 or k4 for a few hours one of these days before I decide what to swap my 7300 for.

How do you like the K4? I give it a gawk at every hamfest I end up at.

Yeah expect a 6-8 month lead time on anything official

Only did saturday, but waited till end of contest to post results. 183k total score as an HP phone only for the 10m contest. Not bad for 11 hours of total op time. #hamradio #amateurradio

Bands are looking hot today, so good time to knock out any 10m awards you lack.

10m contest this weekend! Who all is gonna be on? Should be a good one. #hamradio #amateurradio

If the sun cooperates it should be a good one. Plus mixed modes!

Made an appearance in the december newsletter from the Tennesee Contest Group. Had a lot of fun, and thankful to Billy AA4NU for letting me op at his station. A good read too.
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Run 240v to that room! Even if you don’t have an amp now, you might get one.

On the road today! Should be pinging aprs the whole way as N4ML-9, though in my experience there are large deadzones along the highway. #hamradio

Thanks! And Thanks! Had a lot of fun working towards the full sweep.

I like using APRS in my car just to see how good the network is all over. Kinda circular reasoning but I like it. Plus I can send text messages and regular aprs messages when theres no cell signal.

scoreboard of raw scores for all entrants in single op unlimited high power

scoreboard of raw scores for all entrants in W4 single op unlimited high power

scoreboard of raw scores for all delta division entrants in single op unlimited high power

First Bluesky post! Realized #ARRLSS ssb raw scores were out! #26 overall, #4 W4, and #2 Delta division for SO Unlimited HP. Pretty happy, may do a write up to launch my site! #hamradio #amateurradio