ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: KD2MX
Operator(s): KD2MX
Station: KD2MX
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Oakland, NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 3 3
80: 46 32
40: 90 47
20: 184 60
15: 102 41
10: 4 4
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Total: 429 187 Total Score = 240,669
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
My first three qsos were working JA qrp. That was a thrill (I'm easily excited)
as those were my first qrp JAs. I started out qrp for the first hour but
figured I'd be giving up a lot of fun, especially on 40 &80, so I opted for LP.
This is my first contest as a YCCC member and I wanted to be able to submit a
decent score plus work some new countries. While I did ok last year as a qrp
entry, I have to say I had a blast this year, despite 10m being mostly dead
here.
Fortunately, 15m was in pretty good shape both days. Was able to work ZL & KH6
easily as well as EU Sunday. Finally found KL7 on cw. I think kl7wv had one of
the bigger pileups that I heard. He made a brief appearance here Saturday
afternoon but I wasn't able to work him (maybe cause I first tried qrp as I
still need AK for qrp WAS) but I had better luck on Sunday. KH6 was almost a
dime a dozen.
10m was dead on Saturday but I managed to squeeze out a few multipliers on
Sunday. It was very spotty although the 6s & 7s were blasting here.
Personally I was thrilled with the weekend. Worked many new countries, just
about everything I heard, and blew past my score of last year, which had been,
my first dx test in many, many years. Ran almost entirely S&P. Will have to
try as an assisted entry next year, I spent a lot of time listening for calls
this weekend, time that might've been better spent calling cq.
Looking forward to the phone contest....
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