[3830] ARRL 10 K2PS SO Mixed LP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: K2PS
Operator(s): K2PS
Station: K2PS

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 28

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  320    53
  SSB:  370    43
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Total:  690    96  Total Score = 194,304

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Always love this contest!  As Forrest Gump says, "It's like a box of chocolates.
 You never know what you're gonna get."

Friday was the usual locals and a few of the bigger stations to the tune of 123
Qs over five hours.  Saturday started about 7A local time, and the activity
expanded out to a few more states, and by 1030A local had 210 Qs with 30CW and
18 SSB mults.  At that time the Central and South Americans started to be heard
and worked.

Swung the beam around a few times to the east to see if any EUs popped through,
but nothing heard.  Knocked off for dinner out with the XYL and friends at 6P
and hoped I wouldn't miss some huge opening.  Back by 930p and the band is wide
open to FL (narrowly open)?  I knocked off by 1030p with 376 and 43+27 mults.

As is typical in this contest, Sunday wasn't like the day before.  The 1030A
change this time was to the midwest, and NE, MO, OK, KS, and even AB7E in AZ
started barreling through.  But the real fun started when I switched over to
SSB and started to run 'em.  Had the rate meter up close to 300 for a short
time, and it was a blast!  After the FL opening the night before, I had thought
I'd milked the state pretty well, but was I ever wrong!  Ultimately, I put 199
pipelined FL stations into the log (compared with 88 NJ).  Many were clearly
retirees with New Yawk and New Joisey accents, who would have been much tougher
to work in their original QTHs.  Had the beam pointed west for the smattering of
midwesterners that called in, and the FL stations were so loud it didn't matter
that they were off to the side.  Turned out to be a good strategy when W6YX
called in from CA.

Ended up with nearly double last year's score, and soooo looking forward to
sunspots and EUs.

A memorable moment: I'm tuning around and find a guy running some stations, but
not identifying.  So I threw in a "What's your call?"  The response was, "QRZ
the guy who said, 'What's your call?'"  I had to laugh.


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