K5MDX ARRL 10 M/S HP score:
Band QSOs DomMult DXMult
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10CW 1210 60 65
10SSB 1810 61 77
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TOTAL 3020 121 142 2,224,980 points
Operators: W5UE, WQ5L, N5FG, N5ZX, KD5CQT
Hours Operated: 35
Rig: FT1000 + Alpha 77
Antenna: C31XR @ 50'
Section: MS
In sixteen years of operating this contest off and on
(mostly on) I'd never before this time seen a great
sporadic E opening in a high-flux year. It always seems
to be either-or.
The annual MDXA dinner banquet was Saturday evening at
0000Z. Randy, W5UE volunteered to skip it to keep working
the contest. I kinda felt bad later, chowing down on fried
catfish and ribs while he was probably CQing on a dead band.
Boy was I wrong. Returned to the shack three hours later
to find him still running on the same frequency and 400+
more QSOs in the log. I will lobby hard to get the banquet
rescheduled next year.
Before calling it a night, a little after midnight local
time, I was surprised to hear LU5VV on CW with a nice
signal. Crazy.
DX conditions were good, but not great. Signals from
Europe, especially Eastern Europe, were on the weak side.
This was our first contest with the C31XR, replacing a much
smaller Hygain 3-el tribander. It did quite well I think.
3000 Qs was WAY beyond my expectations. None of us had ever
even broken 2000 Qs in any contest, single or multi op.
Once we got the 3000 Q mark in our sights, Sunday morning
sometime, we quit chasing mults for the most part, and
worked more phone than we would have liked, to concentrate
on rate. Made it just under the wire on the strength of a
great run to W6/W7/JA in the last 30 minutes.
Domestic mults missed: VY1 and VE8 both modes, VY2 and VO2
on CW, and New Mexico (!!!) on phone.
73 & Happy Holidays,
-- Ray WQ5L
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