[3830] ARRL 10 K7BG SO CW HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: K7BG
Operator(s): K7BG
Station: K7BG

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: MT
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  146    33
  SSB:           
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Total:  146    33  Total Score = 19,272

Club: Northern Rockies DX Association

Comments:

Just copied a 3w beacon in Alabama here 5 hours after the contest. That figures.
Also copying a beacon in Kansas. Could have used this opening a day or two ago.

The first high school basketball weekend started this weekend so I was 70 miles
away for the first 5 hours of the contest. Guess I didn't miss much. When I got
home late Friday I worked 4 or 5 stations on scatter and called it good for the
night. Got up Saturday and worked a few more scatter stations and an hour or two
later found 6Y1V so that was a pleasant surprise. A few minutes later I thought
the band was opening to New England as I heard something 1SE....hey, wait a
minute he is giving a serial number, not a state. Hey, that's 6W1SE... I was
his 45th contact. Well, that was about the highlights for Saturday. No good
openings to speak of. Then at 2PM local, it's back to the town 70 miles away
for the next game of the opening basketball tournament. My daughter who is a
sophomore is a starter with four seniors so I just HAVE to go watch her play,
you know.

When I get back Saturday night I find the band wide open with rock crushing
signals to Texas. I work a few OK, NM and one MS station as I wait for the E
cloud to move somewhere else as I have about worked all I can find in Armadillo
country. No luck, the E cloud is anchored fast and doesn't budge. My last
contact is K5TA who had the loudest signal I heard all weekend. I check a few
more times over the next hour and nothing but the diehard scatter sigs are
coming through.

On Sunday I sit amazed at how weak the SA signals are. I hear some signals that
are copiable, but I can't ever remember when I could hear signals that were
virtually nano volts in signal strength. Somehow I am able to get some in the
log through what almost seemed like one way skip at times.

DX worked: 6Y, 6W, CX, LU, CE, and PY.

Always fun seeing what will happen in this contest. Too bad in this one that
not much did!

Matt--K7BG


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