ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: W2UP
Operator(s): W2UP
Station: W2UP
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: PA
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 50 39
80: 215 67
40: 544 89
20: 645 89
15: 53 41
10:
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Total: 1507 325 Total Score = 1,469,325
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
Random musings:
SO1RPTFD - single op 1 radio, part-time, first day operation (OK, 30 minutes on
Sunday morning - I was hoping 15m would open for a fun run.) SO2R is like power
windows in a car - once you have it, it's hard to go back. There's so much lost
potential with 1 radio. All that time doing nothing, during the CQ!
Everybody's b*tching about condx. For the time I operated, granted, not much,
I thought it was pretty good. The low bands were the quietest I've heard them
in a long time. I had a ton of QRPers call in and for the most part, no
problems copying them (other than their incessant repeating of "QRP QRP.") On
40m, I worked almost 300 stations in a little over 2 hours (20-2200Z on Sat.)
On 160, my weakest band, I beat W3LPL out to one station - the little things
that make us happy. It will probably never happen again :.) The other
fortunate thing about this QSO was it was not a packet spot, so I got in and
out quickly before all the endless callers arrived. Have you ever noticed a
few guys have a knack for dropping their call in just as the DX responds, every
time?
I used N1MM for the first time from home (used it for the very first time at
N3RS in CQWW CW) Some things about it I like better than Writelog, others
things not. A couple of times, I don't know what happened, but the radio QSYed
on me. One minute I'm CQing on 7000.7, the next minute, I'm CQing on 7035 and
some poor W8 is wondering where I came from. Once I realized what happened, I
went back to my freq (and apologies to the W8.)
Some of these cut numbers are crazy. How about this? Next time you get a
wacky cut number, send your exchange phonetically - for example, five nine nine
papa alpha (yes, on cw)
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