[3830] ARRL 10 WA7XX(@K8IA) M/S HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: WA7XX
Operator(s): K8IA N7RQ
Station: K8IA

Class: M/S HP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  278    43
  SSB:  276    33
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Total:  554    76  Total Score = 126,768

Club: Central Arizona DX Association

Comments:

Ridiculously poor conditions, but Sandy and I stuck it out. It certainly did not
seem indicative of SFI=87 and SSN =36!

Some eye opening stats:

Daytime QSO's = 130
Nightime QSO's = 424

Sunday daytime qso's = 24 (ouch....really poor cndx Sunday!)

Texas qso's = 134 (No wonder those big scores are coming from TX!)

USA: 1 "1", 3 "2's", 1 "3" and just a handful of 8's and 9's. (529 USA total)

DX: 3-CE, 2-CX, 8-LU, 1-PJ2, 1 VE (ONE VE?), 3-XE, 1 XF4, 6-ZL's

Screwy contest, one VE and six ZL's. All the Zl's answered my cw CQing.

Last yr, with a single mode (cw) and running Low Power, I had more q's the
first 5 hrs of the contest than we did the first 24 using kw and both modes!

I sure hope next yr is better cndx. We will be back.

Sandy and I played contest tag team, switching her ssb position and my cw
position to the only antenna we have here for 10m, a 3 el SteppIR up about 78
ft, when cndx dictated a mode move.

CW Position (K8IA op): Orion II, Alpha 91B
SSB Position (N7RQ op): TS-870S, Alpha 76PA (tnx K7WP. Acom 1000 on the way!)

Software; N1MM v7.11.4, networked 


73, Bob K8IA
Signal Butte Contesters - WA7XX
Arizona USA


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