I found myself up in the middle of the night Saturday night, and
decided to get on and operate for a little bit. My low 110' doublet
managed to tune up on 160 with my MFJ tuner, but my station felt rather
rabbitish (lots of stations that I could hear clearly required multiple
tries to get my call and/or exchange). Having gotten on only expecting
to work domestic contacts, and having a struggle working a lot of them,
it was rather enjoyable to easily snag VP5K for my one DX contact.
I get the impression that this is a rather different contest. Code
speeds seemed to be slower, and stations a lot more patient than in
other contests. Or is this just because I snuck in in the middle of
the second night?
32 QSOs, 67 points, 19 multipliers, = 1273 points.
Ben
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