[3830] WPX CW N2IC SOAB HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: N2IC
Operator(s): N2IC
Station: N2IC

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: New Mexico
Operating Time (hrs): 35
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:   51
   40:  579
   20: 1054
   15:  840
   10:  119
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Total: 2643  Prefixes = 804  Total Score = 5,322,480

Club: 

Comments:

Greetings from the southwest USA.  This is May, our driest month, averaging less
than 0.5" of rain.  Guess what happened this weekend ?  Thanks to thunderstorms,
lost the first 2 hours, 5 unplanned hours Saturday afternoon, and prematurely
ended the contest at 2023Z Sunday.  Managed to squeeze in 35 hours of operating.
 Fortunately, the only casualty of the weekend was a lightning-fried modem. 
Geesh, I felt like this was Kansas, not New Mexico ! 

Great condx the first 24 hours.  40 sounded great to EU Friday evening, but I
was too busy playing catch-up from losing the first 2 hours to spend much time
chasing 6 pointers.  Too bad - absolutely no EU on 40 Saturday evening.  15 was
open all night, but not runnable until local sunrise.  It was really fun to have
a 5 hour EU run on 15 Saturday morning.  20 was the usual - too absorptive
during the day to run EU, but a fine over-the-pole opening Friday night into
UA3/4/6 and eastern EU.  Good JA around 06Z both nights on 20, and again Sunday
morning between 13Z-16Z.  Except for an excellent 80 meter opening to JA at
sunrise Sunday (but not enough JA activity !), Sunday was blah.  Good thing the
Sporadic-E was hot to keep 10 and 15 open within North America.

Congrats to KL9A(NK7U) and N6MJ(NM7W) for great west coast scores, and K5ZD for
a possible new record.


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