[3830] ARRL 10 W7MD SO Mixed HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: W7MD
Operator(s): W7MD
Station: W7MD

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: Vail, AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  114    30
  SSB:  193    30
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Total:  307    60  Total Score = 50,520

Club: Central Arizona DX Association

Comments:

Friday night and Saturday was a difficult but interesting exercise. At the start
on Friday evening there was Multihop to South America but this rapidly faded and
the band was apparently dead except for short bursts of propagation possibly
related to the Geminid meteor shower. Only CW was possible and then you had to
be quick or the opportunity was gone.
The rest was Sporadic E Propagation mainly North to South. The farthest East I
could work until daylight on Sunday was MS. Saturday daytime was almost all
CW.
On Sunday, in daylight, Sporadic E gave good Phone openings to the North in the
morning and to the Central US and a few East coast states in the afternoon. I
could never raise a FL contact but MT, SD and ID were plentiful.
Friday and Saturday were ugly days but Sunday was fun.

My Station:
Yaesu FT-1000MP
Henry 3K-Ultra Amplifier
Antenna: Force12 4BA at 95 feet
Microham micro Keyer 2
N1MM Logger
Heil Headset with HC5 cartridge
IBM Thinkpad T42p5


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