[3830] ARRLDX CW K8CC M/M HP

[k8cc@mediaone.net]

                     ARRL DX Contest, CW
                    
Call: K8CC
Operator(s): AC8W, K8CC, K8DD, K8NA, KT8X, N8CQA, N8MR, NU8Z, W8MJ, WX3M
Station: K8CC

Class: M/M HP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 48
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:     57     38
   80:    470     80
   40:    948     97
   20:   1802    120
   15:   1733    121
   10:   1597    115
----------------------
Total:   6607    571  =  11,317,791

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

Outstanding conditions all weekend.  Our only problems operationally came from 
precipitation static on Saturday that was at times S9+25dB on 28 MHz.

Spent a lot of time before the contest building switching setups for 40-10 
which would allow two radios per band (w/single xmit at a time).  
Unfortunately, due to unavoidable last minute cancellations we rarely had 
enough ops to take advantage of this capability.  Most of the time there were 
only seven ops in the house with ten operating positions!  Oh well...

DX spotting through the Internet certainly affected our operating style.  Just 
about any mult of reasonable rarity generated an unruly pileup as seemingly 
every W/VE contester tried to claw their way through.  With the rates so good, 
one could not justify the time to sit in the pileup, even with full power and 
good antennas.  It made more sense to keep running and check back with the 
second VFO to watch for the pileup to work down to a manageable size.  
Occasionally this worked, but a lot of times the DX simply gave up.  Could this 
be the reason multipliers were down this year?

73,

Dave/K8CC


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