ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: NA8V
Operator(s): NA8V
Station: NA8V
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: mi
Operating Time (hrs): 43.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 37 33
80: 221 72
40: 403 69
20: 522 83
15: 497 83
10: 323 66
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Total: 2003 405 Total Score = 2,433,645
Club: East Lansing DX Club
Comments:
Great condx on the low bands!
I have never had any success CQing on 40 in a major contest until this weekend,
made almost half of my 40 q's 06-09z Sat night. Couldn't work a JA, which was a
surpise. Once again I couldn't resist 80/160 and neglected 40 the first night.
had a dozen more Qs Sat than on Fri.
80 was great all weekend to EU, not so much to the west. No JA, but did get
ZL and VK with no one else calling. Also worked a UA9/z17 Fri eve, a first for
me at this qth. 160 was good, worked an LA (harder from here) but couldn't work
an EA which is usually easy - called 3 or 4 with good signals.
Upgraded the high band antennas for this one - added a TH3 fixed SE on its own
tower and raised my TH6 to 67'. Winter is not a good time for antenna work in
MI, snow and wind had put major delays in the project. Got the TH6 up and
aimed at 2315z Friday afternoon. It was well worth the effort.
10 was marginal to EU but with the new height (67' vs. 37') was able to work
quite a few stations on Sat without much trouble. Sunday was able to run for
nearly 2+ hours at a decent rate. didn't expect the band to open so well so
went up a bit late but it seemed to work out ok in the end. Mostly western EU
with a few east EU and Scandanavians thrown in.
15 produced my best hour of the contest, a 115 that was mostly S&P on the first
pass thru the band.
20 was not spectacular but seemed solid. not so many Asians as one would
expect with the bands so good.
My mult seems a little low, i did try and run maybe more than i should have.
No problem finding a freq and I seemed to get answers but no real screaming
rate.
Slept 2hrs each night. Considered going straight thru with 40 still going well
but knew the sleep would pay off and it did. Had some fatigue on Sun afternoon
but felt pretty good for the whole contest. Good condx does much for the
adrenaline factor.
All in all, it was a great contest.
160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL
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USA calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Canada calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NA calls = 11 23 18 28 25 22 0 0 0 126
SA calls = 4 8 14 33 28 38 0 0 0 125
Euro calls = 18 181 355 422 405 248 0 0 0 1629
African calls = 3 5 9 8 8 6 0 0 0 39
Asian calls = 0 2 2 22 8 2 0 0 0 36
Japan calls = 0 0 0 12 26 1 0 0 0 39
Ocean calls = 1 5 9 3 5 7 0 0 0 30
Total calls = 37 224 407 528 505 324 0 0 0 2025
TS850
10/15/20 TH6 67', TH3 47'(fixed SE)
40 Doubleslot, wire vert
80 2xInv L
160 Inv L
rx: 2x Bev, 450' at eu
greg/na8v
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