[3830] ARRLDX CW K8DX SOAB HP

[k8dx@raex.com]

                     ARRL DX Contest, CW
                    
Call: K8DX
Operator(s): 
Station: 

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Ohio
Operating Time (hrs): 24
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:     24     19
   80:    271     59
   40:    320     60
   20:    680     54
   15:    484     64
   10:    808     67
----------------------
Total:   2587    323  =  2,505,834

Club: NCC

Comments:

Started the contest with only one radio, with one on its way back to me after 
being repaired.  Thoughts of just getting on for a few hours seemed remote 
since I’ve torn all the cables out while doing some drywall remodeling in the 
basement for a playroom for the kids/ guest op sleeping quarters.  It expanded 
into a much larger project than I first planned and now might include moving 
the furnace :-(

Started thinking I’d only play for a few hours, but got caught up in the great 
conditions.  I kept debating if it was worth it to wire everything back up or 
not, but just kept plugging along with the 10M stack hardwired with all three 
antennas active, but two of them fixed SE.  On 15M the top antenna was the only 
one used and still had a rotator.  On 20M all the rotators were disconnected 
with all the antennas at least fixed on Europe!

Highlights of the contest included having a 90 hour on 80M, and the first night 
on 20M with 07-09Z with rates of 155, 163, and 161.  It was the first time I 
can remember wishing the pileup was smaller so it would be easier to pick calls 
out!  Since I told my wife that I would just be putting in a few hours, I 
figured when the op time hit 24 hours it was time to get back to taping and 
mudding drywall…

73,

Scott


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