ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: KH2/N2NL
Operator(s): N2NL
Station: N2NL
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: Guam
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 36 19
40: 213 43
20: 189 44
15: 600 53
10: 1235 60
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Total: 2273 219 Total Score = 1,433,574
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
Like it or hate it, packet has distinctly changed contesting in North America.
For more than 45 minutes the 1st night, I called CQ on 40m and had three
callers. I was never spotted. I gave up, moved to 20, got spotted, and made
more than 100 QSOs in short order. On the second day, I got spotted early on
40 and had close to a 200 hour. Later, I moved to 20, never got spotted, and
didn't have a single caller after more than twenty minutes of CQing. Once you
get spotted - the rate takes off, achieving a state of "critical
mass" where repeat spots sustain a pileup. Not sure I like this... but at
least on CW you have Skimmer users so you can usually get something going more
quickly. Being outside of the NA-EU bubble of contest activity doesn't help as
significantly fewer people are actually looking this way.
From here in the W. Pacific, 10m was the band that kept on giving. There was
noticeable absorption on 15m, getting worse down the bands. 40m was mediocre at
best. 80 was poor and I never heard a single station on Topband the entire
weekend, even with an 800ft Beverage.
Somewhat bittersweet, this is my last ARRL DX contest from Guam. Not sure
if I will operate in RDXC as W1AW/KH2 - I'll have to see how the pileups play
out. Likewise, I am not sure that I won't be burned out after our W1AW/KH2
week to spend much time in WPX SSB. Since I'm transferring to Honolulu this
summer, we will probably have to get packed out before the WPX CW weekend.
Regardless, I hope to remain active until shortly before I get on the airplane
to KH6.
Thanks for the QSOs...
73, Dave KH2/N2NL
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