[3830] ANARTS VA7ST SOST HP

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                    ANARTS WW RTTY Contest

Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST

Class: SOST HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
-------------------------
   80:    6    12     2
   40:  104   975    23
   20:  267  4056    64
   15:   12   170     9
   10:                 
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Total:  389  5243    98  Continents = 6  Total Score = 3,083,684

Club: 

Comments:

Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   Sec   Cnt
         3.5       6      12    0    2    0
           7     104     975    7   16    0
          14     267    4086   42   22    6
          21      12     170    4    5    0
       Total     389    5243   53   45    6

           Score : 3,083,284 + 400 VK bonus = 3,083,684

FT920 + N1MM Logger + MMTTY
SB220
3 element tribander at 45'
Half-square aiming NW-SE
80M vertical (ground-mounted all-bander)

SFI=79 A=8 K=2

Sixth outing in ANARTS. Score is about four times higher than last year, and
1.25 million higher than my best in 2005. Adding a little power helped work
more DX on 20M and 40M. Got all six continents in the bag early. Bands could
have been better, considering the SFI spike upward to over 80 for a few days
before the start, down to 76 by the end. Found 10 dead, 15 barely breathing,
and 20 a bit noisy with weak EU openings both days.

40M hasn't been good till rather late in the evenings when most stations are
gone. Went to bed at 11 p.m. Saturday night, and was up again at 2 a.m. to
drive to a 24-hour relay fund-raiser (I was the walker/runner for our team's 3
to 4 a.m. shift -- a time picked so it wouldn't get in the way of the contest).
Got home at 4:45 a.m. to work 40M and it was very good. Quite a lot of
Pacific/Asia DX on the half-square, many calling in and some S&P. Can't say
enough good about that simple wire antenna.

Worked 4 VKs this time out -- all on 20M. Worked 2 ZLs on 20M and 3 ZLs on 40M.
Looking for improvements on 15M and the return of 10M (a little, anyway) for
next year.

A lot of mults missed due to 80M inactivity. K7QQ invited me to QSY to 80 at 10
p.m. Pacific (0500z) Saturday night, and that 5-minute episode provided 5 of my
6 Qs there, and the W7 mult. Thanks for the invitation, Rex. Wish more of us
had fired up the longer wires.

Year-over-year claimed scores:

Year     Cat.    Qs   Mult Cont     Score   Hrs  Call
--------------------------------------------------------
June-07  SOABHP  389    98   6  3,083,684    19  VA7ST
June-06  SOABLP  175  	61   6	  764,408    18  VA7ST
June-05  SOSTLP  289 	84   6	1,775,384    14  VA7ST
June-04  SOABLP  158 	64   5    687,120    12  VA7ST
June-03  SOABLP  120 	67   5    567,530    16  VE7ASK
June-02  SOABLP   60 	42   5    226,340    19  VE7ASK


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