[3830] ARRL 10 ZF2NT SO Mixed LP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: ZF2NT
Operator(s): ZF2NT
Station: ZF2NT

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: LYB
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW: 1063   111
  SSB: 1164   114
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Total: 2227   225  Total Score = 1,400,940

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

I knew going into this that I was going to have to miss at least 5 hours of
prime time on Sunday morning, so that kind of sapped my motivation.  Curiously,
15 minutes before I had to QRT at 1345Z, the band went absolutely flat to EU. 
Where just a minute before the Europeans were booming in here, suddenly I found
myself struggling to pull F5IN out of the noise...and he was the only EU station
I could hear.  When I came back about 1900Z, conditions were terrible...and
stayed that way the rest of the day.  And I thought Saturday was bad!  One
curious phenomena this weekend were the crazy paths signals were taking.  It was
so bizarre that I even went out once to see if my beam had slipped on the mast,
since the normal headings weren't working at all.

Lessons learned:  (1)  No more SSB.  I really do not enjoy it and should leave
it for the people who do.  (2)  Next time, use the amp.  LP is no fun, even if I
did save on my power & light bill this weekend.  Actually, I had done HP/CW the
past 2 years and decided to do something different this year.  That was a
mistake.


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