ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: W9XT
Operator(s): W9XT
Station: W9XT
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 432 85
SSB: 250 64
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Total: 682 149 Total Score = 331,972
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
This is my favorite contest, but this long stretch of bad conditions is getting
old. The solar flux dropped about 40 points from CQWW phone where I did a
single band 10M and worked nearly 1200 stations, roughly twice my QSO count
this weekend. In that one I only had one mode and could not work US stations
for points. Fortunately there was enough Es to keep things interesting. In
between I made some progress on the new Tom Clancy novel while the keyer banged
out CQs.
The A3 tribander on the tower away from the house has some problem when I run
high power. It is much quieter than the TH7 next to the house, and I would
have missed a lot of weak stations without it. For that reason I went low power
mixed mode. I don't think I ever went low power in this contest before. At
times it didn't seem to matter, and other times I felt I was banging my head on
the wall.
The DX highlights were working FH8PL on Saturday morning. Sunday morning I
heard an XV long path but there was no hope of breaking the big pile up on him.
Later, about 17:00 I had the beam west trying to pick up some W0 states for
multipliers and heard A45XR. Great! A good multiplier. I turned the beam east
and he disappeared. I turned it back west and the signal went up. I don't
recall working that part of the world LP on 10 before
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