[3830] ARRLDX CW ZF2NT M/S HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: ZF2NT
Operator(s): N6NT, VE3DZ
Station: ZF2NT

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  329    53
   80:  700    56
   40:  935    58
   20: 1212    57
   15: 1241    58
   10: 1451    59
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Total: 5868   341  Total Score = 6,002,964

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

It seemed there was more activity this year than in recent years, probably
because the east coast storm kept people indoors and on the radio.  The downside
of that storm, though, was that the promised appearance of W3DOS in DC never
happened...so we missed the DC mult just about everywhere.  

Yuri and I split this one strait down the middle, each of us taking turns in
shifts of 5 hours, except that the last shift each day was only 4 hours.  Yuri
led off in the first shift with the best sustained CW run I've ever seen:  at
the end of 5 hours, he had 1074 contacts in the log.  He is an awesome contest
operator!  I hate to think how much higher "our" score could have been if I had
just let him do all the operating while I ran for coffee.

The low bands were terrible Saturday night.  On 160, we had continuous QRN that
was well over S9, even on the Rx antennas.  It was frustrating to hear so many
people calling us and yet not be able to pull anything out of the muck.  Before
the contest you could hear a pin drop on the other side of the world...but
things went downhill on 160 fairly quickly.  Outside of that, and one period of
instability on 10 sometime Saturday, the bands were sparkling down here in the
Caribbean.


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