Day 3 report, day of the actual Pennzoil 400. The wind calmed down significantly. but now the conditions on 20 meters stink in the morning, which is when I can operate before race activities.
The ARRL DX contest did me no favors as I could scan around the band and hear stations calling for DX which i could not hear with a compromised antenna and had no interest in returning a call from me. I parked on 14.262 for a few hours and made calls and made a few contacts but even had one guy call over the top of me to make a distant EU contact. I thought he was returning my "CQ Racing on the Air from the Pennzoil 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway" but after he gave is call which I responded to, he asked me to stand by as he was trying to make an EU contact for the contest. I replied that the frequency was in use for a special event station and he didn't care, proceeding to just smash me. When i got home today, I mentioned that story to a local who said he could hear me and was trying to make the contact only to be told by that same station to stand by for the contest. IMO, this is the perfect example of a complete ass hat operator. I can't change the date of the ARRL DX contest or the NASCAR race, but a little respect by all operators should be had.
20 meters never really opened up on Sunday before race time, but here's my log - the best I could do:
N7IAD
AI7RK
KX7VHF
AI7QF
KA7RRA
EI7M (this one was on 21Mhz...I got a text from a friend and I used the ATU in the Elecraft KXPA100 to get him).
K7UAP
KN6ZHJ
KM6MWO
WA0TPN
K7KIB