[3830] W1KM SOAB CQWW CW 1997

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      160       66      172     2.61     16      51
       80      534     1538     2.88     23      79
       40      738     2127     2.88     26      89
       20      924     2711     2.93     33      98
       15      755     2231     2.95     30      90
       10      198      573     2.89     19      58
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   3215     9352     2.91    147     465  =>  5,723,424

      44 hrs.


Wanted to make 6M but will have to wait til next year...
Congrats to K1AR on a phenomenal job  (and he can return to his home
planet anytime!)
Highlights were the 10 m opening, with a seeming pipeline to 
DL, and finding YB1AQS  there beaming south at 1713Z, and working him
before any  packet pileup.
Spent over a half  hour  on 15 Sunday morning running with the wrong (south)
beam--
guys were answering with a distinctive echo and I thought the band 
was just funny. Turns out they were coming in from that direction, but
they were a lot stronger on the NE beam (and the rate quadrupled when I
switched).
That teaches me again that in addition to always asking the question "Am I
doing what is  best for my score at this moment" I need to be asking "What is
 going  wrong at this moment?" 
As always, thanks to CQ and the contest committee for a tremendous weekend.

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