ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: K1RX
Operator(s): K1RX
Station: K1RX
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 23.7
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 44 31
80: 139 59
40: 152 56
20: 1083 90
15: 87 31
10: 11 6
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Total: 1516 273 Total Score = 1,240,785
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Big change at this station - going from MM to SOAB (and no packet). I quite
accurately predicted the poor propagation for the weekend and "sent" everyone
home to play from their idividual stations! Hopefully from a score production
point of view, this was a good move - more points for the club competition!
Thought going without packet might be fun, different, challenging and the like.
Not disappointed here - having the ability to tune another band (usually close
to dead) while CQing on the only band for rate (20 M) was thought to be a nice
way to kill the weekend. Found it very tough trying to listen on one band
while getting answers to my CQing with signal levels close to the noise level -
it took a whole lot more work than I originally considered. Wall to wall on 20
M during the day, where I noticed we were all sometimes coexisting with 200 Hz
separation! That must sound very interesting in Europe - barely touching the
dial and work about 10 people.
Left the shack for several hours to help out my local club station by supplying
an amplifier, DVK and some general support on Saturday night. The operator
there was very pleased with his results despite the poor conditions.
Thanks so much to all the DX stations for all your patience! Very hard to make
a decent go of it on the bands with such bad conditions - you made my weekend
and again, thanks!
When the sunspots return, so will my ever faithful contest crew (hope!).
73, Mark, K1RX
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