NA Sprint SSB Contest
Call: AL9A
Operator(s): AL9A
Station: AL9A
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Wasilla, AK
Operating Time (hrs): 2.2
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80: 0 0
40: 14 1.2
20: 25 1.0
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Total: 39 Mults = 7 Total Score = 273
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Team: SMC #1
Comments:
I knew this was going to be a bummer when I took a look at the solar indexes
just before the start of the contest. Up 2100 hrs the A index was running at
2. At 2100 it jumped to 17! By 0000 it was at 18! Today the HIgh Latitude
College Station index report shows an A index of 25 at Fairbanks, AK for Feb
14th. That pretty much wiped out any hopes I for decent propagation during the
contest. 20M died early, 40M was limited to West Coast only (TX & MT was as far
east as I worked) and 80M was unusable. This is supposed to fun right?
After only 2 hrs of contacting mostly high power CA stations I called it quits.
The S7 to S9 noise in my ears was becoming painful and it was frustrating to
hear a CA station call CQ, get a response from the lower 48 and then yield the
freq to a station I had absolutely no copy on. Tough to get into a rhythm that
way!
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