[3830] K5ZD WPX Phone SOAB

[Randy Thompson]

              CQ World-Wide WPX Contest 1999
                       MODE: PHONE

CALL:   K5ZD                            LOCATION: Massachusetts
CLASS:  Single Operator All Band High Power


     Band     QSOs  QSO points   Prefixes

     160m      22       74           13
      80m     191      967          109
      40m     108      615           64
      20m     219      517          123
      15m     669     1805          277
      10m     162      455           69

     Totals  1371     4433          655  =  2,903,615  Points

Hours of Operation: 14.5

Notes:

- The 1 point rule is great!  Didn't change the contest that much, but did
seem to encourage more activity and was fun to work USA multipliers without
feeling "guilty".

- 75m and 160m were great Friday night.  EA4ML was booming in for several
hours on 160.  I had a very surprising run of Europeans and Russians on
75m.

- 15m was fantastic to JA on Saturday and Sunday evenings.

- 10m just doesn't seem to be able to get going like past sunspot cycles.
Hope it continues to improve.

Randy, K5ZD

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Randy Thompson, K5ZD

E-mail k5zd at ma.ultranet.com
Web http://www.contesting.com/k5zd
11 Hollis Street, Uxbridge, MA 01569
Tel (h) 508-278-2355 (w) 508-337-6600 x-213


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