ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 31 24
40: 55 31
20: 368 75
15: 162 39
10: 77 20
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Total: 693 189 Total Score = 392,931
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
* FT-2000 + SB221 (~500)
* 3 ele. Steppir @ 27'
* 40M Steppir dipole @ 27'
* 80M 2-el. vertical array, E or W
* 270' short Beverage due east
Flux = 105-110 A= 10+ K=2 C-class flaring
ARRL DX SSB = Plenty of hard work, long slow times, but moments of great
enjoyment.
Stopped for a few minutes and listened to N7DD working Europeans at will on
15M Sunday morning. I had time, because not a single signal from Europe was
reaching BC at the time -- nor any time on Sunday. Great work Larry -- 1800 Qs
and 118 mults on 15M from the southwest.
Worked one F station on 15M Saturday, but had to point to the southeast (60
degrees off the prime heading, along the skirt of the auroral oval, I guess) to
get their attention. The strong skew offered up a couple of other southern
Europeans a while later, but not many -- and it never did straighten out as it
has in recent contests.
Despite some of the worst overall conditions in a while, I broke my personal
best thanks to 10M providing some mults and a few Qs this year. Without Europe
on 15M, it still felt like a lousy outing.
Had a good run of 118 Europeans on 20M Sunday morning (1529z-1626z) but the
path went out like a light after precisely 57 minutes of fun, and never
returned. After that, only big-guns made it over the pole.
Mults were marginally higher than last year on 40M and 75M, but Saturday night
was rather poor on both bands.
Highlights were the hour-long Euro run on 20M Sunday morning, and a JA run on
15M early Saturday evening. Amazing how strong even the 5-watters were. And one
50-watt station was booming, though he had six elements aimed at me, hi.
-- Bud VA7ST
http://www.va7st.ca/home.html
http://www.orcadxcc.org
2009 2010 2011 2012
Band QSOs Mults QSOs Mults QSOs Mults QSOs Mults
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160: - - - - - - - -
80: 27 18 20 17 20 18 31 24
40: 41 28 46 27 46 29 55 31
20: 312 68 640 75 313 79 368 75
15: 36 16 64 24 206 58 162 39
10: - - - - 41 6 77 20
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Total: 416 130 770 143 626 190 693 189
Score: 162,240 330,330 354,540 392,931
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