[3830] ARRLDX CW N1EU SOAB(A) HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: N1EU
Operator(s): N1EU
Station: N1EU

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Albany, NY
Operating Time (hrs): 15

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   41    34
   80:   88    61
   40:  339    84
   20:  638    91
   15:   81    69
   10:    4     4
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Total: 1191   343  Total Score = 1,225,539

Club: 

Comments:

Wow, what an interesting weekend.  I couldn't put in much time due to my hip
surgery a week ago (bicycling accident), but I enjoyed every minute that I
operated.  Only down side was losing the 160M antenna Friday evening when condx
to Europe seemed quite good indeed. Its postmortem will have to wait till the
snow melts and I'm off crutches.

As far as superlatives, the conditions to Europe on 20M Sunday morning and on
40M Sunday evening were among the best that I've EVER heard.  Condx on 80M were
also very, very good.  On Sunday morning, I had my  highest sustained run ever
on 20M.  On Sunday eve, I found a clear, quiet run freq reasonably low in the
band on 40M and  it seemed like I could hear way, way down into the very low
noise level and every single caller was Q5 - I never had the experience before
that there wasn't at least one layer of weak signals in the noise that I
couldn't pull out.  Here, I seemed to be hearing them all, down to the weakest
QRP callers - no more layers.  For me, it doesn't get any better than this. 
The only breaks to my samadhi were a vicious but successful frequency fight
when W2** tried to steal my frequency and later when someone spotted me and I
had to deal with the ensuing mess for 10 minutes - I'll take quality over
quantity every time, thank you very much.

Equipment:
Ten-Tec Orion, Acom 2000A
160M inv L
80M 1/4L wire vert
40M delta loop (apex down)
Force 12 C3S tribander @ 15M
580ft Beverages NE, SE, SW, NW

Thanks for the Q's and regrets to those I missed.

73,
Barry N1EU


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