[3830] ARRL 10 K4TD SO Mixed HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: K4TD
Operator(s): K4TD
Station: K4TD

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: Alabama
Operating Time (hrs): 18.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  458    59
  SSB:  243    41
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Total:  701   100  Total Score = 231,200

Club: Alabama Contest Group

Comments:

Well that was about as much fun as having one of my wisdom teeth extracted
through my ear...  I hadn't planned to do anything even remotely serious for
this one.  For some reason, I just kept sitting down behind the rig and calling
CQ...  It felt somewhat like I imagine it would be for a wild dog trying to gnaw
its way through an electric fence.  I had planned to do this one as CW only, but
I got very bored and ventured up the band to work some "alternate mode."  Thanks
very much for all the QSO's on both modes.

Friday evening felt more like an Alabama QSO party with all of us here working
each other pretty early on.  Not much else to write home about for that
evening.  Very interesting conditions Saturday evening.  The guys from FL all
had crushing signals.  K1TO was the Energizer Bunny on this one, and his
S9+50dB signal always made him look like a spotlight in the dark.  I also
listened to another FL station (on SSB) running a pileup, and it seemed that he
was getting calls from all over the country.  I had a nice little opening into
the Pacific Northwest myself around 0630Z.  Worked a VE7, MT and many WA during
that opening but never heard any OR during that time.  Interestingly, all my
significant CW activity came after sunset.

After looking at the demographics of the stations I worked, all I can say is
thank goodness for the guys in MN, FL, TX and CO.  Without their participation,
this would have been an even more boring event here at my station...  :-)

Hope to see many of you in the Stew Perry 160 event later this month.

73,

Rick
K4TD


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