ARRL CW - K6KM (WM2C op) 20m Single Band HP

[Ken Silverman]

          Call: K6KM (WM2C/6 op)          Country:  United States
          Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator
     
           BAND     QSO   PTS   PTS/Q COUNTRIES
      
            20m     971   2901   3.0      90  =   262,170  Total raw Score
     
     QTH:  Beautiful K6KM hill top at 2100' in Northern California
     
     20m Antennas:      5 ele Force 12 @ 75'
                        3 ele Force 12 @ 50'
     
     Antennas fed together most of the time for expanded geographic 
     coverage (and to beat away the US crowd to keep the freq clear for 
     those weak stations)
     
     Equipment:  TS950SDX and Alpha 87A
     
     
     Wow!  At point in the cycle, I can't beleive that I worked more 
     Europeans than JA's!  From northern California, this IS a big deal. 
     The pipeline into EU was just super.  The first hour into EU was 
     around 110/hr, which tied first hour of the contest into JA/Pac. 
     
     Sunday propagation into Eu was interesting...  the rate got better as 
     signals started getting weak later in the opening.  Sunday was also 
     highlighted by the number of QRP EU stations that called me.  I was 
     getting lots of reports like 001, 002, 006, 011 ...  I first thought 
     that these guys were not in tune with what report to give.  But they 
     all followed thier numbers by signing QRP.  Neat.  
     
     No other interesting propagation to note.  The band died at around 
     0300z both nights - usually we can work JA much later, and we can also 
     follow the sunrise across Asia into eastern EU until 0600z, but not 
     this weekend.    Suprising lack of MULTS, especially from the 
     Carribean.  
     
     All in all, I'm very pleased with the score at this time of the cycle.
     
     Many thanks to Bill & Ginny for letting me use their fine station.
     
     
     Kenny WM2C/6
     
     
     
     Continent Statistics
       K6KM   ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST   
     
                           160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent
     
     North America   CW     0    0    0   51    0    0   51     5.1
     South America   CW     0    0    0   23    0    0   23     2.3
     Europe          CW     0    0    0  489    0    0  489    48.5
     Asia            CW     0    0    0  403    0    0  403    39.9
     Africa          CW     0    0    0    9    0    0    9     0.9
     Oceania         CW     0    0    0   34    0    0   34     3.4