[3830] ARRL 10 N6WG SO Mixed QRP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: N6WG
Operator(s): N6WG
Station: N6WG

Class: SO Mixed QRP
QTH: Newark CA
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:   72    13
  SSB:   37     2
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Total:  109    15  Total Score = 5,430

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

I had pretty low expectations going into this contest, especially
after reviewing my log from last year.  It took me the first three
hous just to catch up with and pull ahead of my wretched rate from
last year.  Finally, in the 1700 hour Sunday morning, I passed my
score from last year and pulled ahead.  In the 2100 hour, I finally
broke 100 QSOs.  Darn, that was a lot of seat hours for a measly
100 QSOs.  Many of these QSOs came thanks to the Sunday morning
opening.  I finished up with 109 really hard earned QSOs.  I worked
13 different sections, six of them more than once.  CA(72) was the most
frequent, followed by CO(18).  MT and UT tied at (4), and WA and WY
tied at (2).  All the others were single contacts.

This was my first contest using a 10m beam, a Force-12 EF-510 5 element
yagi.  It was up only 25 feet, so I didn't get the full benefit of it.
However, it did help me work five east coast mults that I couldn't have
caught otherwise.  It sits just below my 40m dipole, and I discovered
I had to have it aimed with the elements at right angles to the dipole
for the lowest noise level.  Apparently the 40m dipole was reradiating
noise into the beam.  Maybe I can find a way to detune the 40m dipole
before the next time I want to work 10m seriously.

I took Friday and Saturday evenings off, as I have a high noise level
in the evening hours, for some reason.  It was pretty much gone in the
early morning hours though.

At least. when the dust had settled, I had beaten my 2007 score by over
5.5 times.  That I can live with.  Now if we could just get some sun
spots back, maybe I could duplicate some of my earlier scores that right
now seem unobtainable.

Thanks to all for the QSOs.  Hope to see you in the next contest.
73, Bob N6WG
The Little Station with Attitude


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