ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 43.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 46 33
80: 117 62
40: 532 88
20: 406 91
15: 903 94
10: 325 74
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Total: 2329 442 Total Score = 3,088,254
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Low band conditions Friday evening were among the best I've ever experienced in
this contest. Down a little the second night but still good. On the other hand
10 was marginal to Europe and JA the first day but better on Sunday. Still
nothing like it was in the last sunspot cycle though.
Put up a new 15 meter yagi on Thursday. Rotor not wired in yet so it was fixed
on Europe. Boy did it start off with a bang. My first CQ on Saturday morning
resulted in an almost instant pile up. Had a 162 QSO hour - best I've ever had
on CW from the USA. Made all the work spent building the antenna and putting up
a new tower worth it.
Probably less than optimal operating strategy - put in too much time
multiplier hunting on 10 Sunday morning when it began to open to Europe. Then
later had most of those multipliers call me when the band got good enough to
run. Still ended up with my most ever Q's and multipliers which resulted in my
best ever score. The raw score exceeds the current W5 low power record by over
500,000 points. Still I feel like I should have done better - you don't get too
many chances with conditions this good on all bands (well almost all bands - ten
could have been better). Maybe there will be another chance next year
Marv N5AW
2013 ARRL-DX-CW N5AW
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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NA calls = 16 24 29 27 41 26 163
SA calls = 6 11 19 33 36 42 147
Euro calls = 19 63 354 200 616 179 1431
African calls = 2 4 9 10 9 6 40
Asian calls = 0 2 13 41 20 3 79
Japan calls = 1 9 97 79 172 57 415
Ocean calls = 3 4 15 19 14 12 67
Total calls = 47 117 536 409 908 325 2342
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