This score is embarrassing. I have a noise generator somewhere in my
neighborhood in the southeast direction from my house that put a buzzing
sound on all the bands off and on throughout the weekend. It was
particularly problematic on 20 and 40M. Those QSO totals are nowhere near
what they should be. This is my lowest score in this contest since 1998.
Nevertheless the weekend did have its bright spots. I don't know if there
is an easy way for TRLog to tell me how many six-band QSOs I had but I am
confident I had more this weekend than I have ever had in the past. Some
that I know of are PJ4R (thanks Jeff and Hal!), PJ2T, CU2M, HI3TEJ, 9Y4W
and 8P5A. I am most pleased with my 160M numbers. It turned out that the
phased beverage I put out for 40M is terrible on 40, but it works fantastic
on 160 and 80. I guess I'll take that tradeoff. I loved 15M on Sunday
morning. It was very quiet and the EU stations just kept coming.
Looks like I was spotted four times over the weekend and three times the
jump in my rate was significant enough that I mentioned it in notes to
myself made in my log.
Because of the noise I kept getting frustrated and took many more breaks
than I normally would. Something like 35 hours total operating time.
Anyway here's the breakdown:
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
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160CW 23 23 69 19
80CW 75 75 225 44
40CW 141 139 417 56
20CW 315 312 936 65
15CW 530 523 1569 69
10CW 35 35 105 24
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Totals 1119 1107 3321 277
Final Score = 919917 points.
73,
Jay, K4OGG
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