[3830] ARRLDX SSB N4TZ/9 SOAB LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ/9

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   31    28
   80:   84    50
   40:   95    43
   20:  264    75
   15:  105    31
   10:   21     8
-------------------
Total:  600   235  Total Score = 423,000

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Comments:

Is the glass half-full or half-empty?  This question is 
often used to identify optimists and pessimists.  But, 
it also identifies different points of view. For example,
I'm told some wine drinkers like to have glasses which
are filled half-full because it supposedly helps the
flavor, while others like their wine glasses half-full
because they don't like the taste.

This philosophical question is raised because of a mid-
contest conversation I had with fellow SMCer Mike, W9RE,
early Sunday.  Mike suggested that the conditions on the
low bands, and particularly 160, were better the second
night while I thought they were definitely better the
first night. I worked 25 DXCC counters the first night
and only 3 more the second night on 160. Furthermore,
I didn't hear many of the people on the second night
that I worked the first night.

Now, I realize with the conditions in general over the
contest weekend that this may be like discussing whether
the glass is half-full or half-empty with toilet water.
Many top contesters have suggested over the years that
you can take your score in points after the first 24
hours and multiply by two to arrive at a pretty accurate
estimate of your final 48 hour score.  My personal
experience over the years has been that I have to work
very hard to double my first day score, but I use that
as a motivational tool to keep in the chair.  

My totals after 24 hours were 457Q x 209C = 286K. Little
did I know that if I had been able to double that I
may well have been looking at a winning Low Power score.
But, the second 24 hours netted only 147 more QSOs and 
just 26 more countries. The ten meter signals were
weaker here the second afternoon and there were fewer
of them. I think I fished out the bands and didn't hear
many new CQers on Sunday.  I only got 3 answers to my
limited CQing during the weekend.  Needless to say,
20 was jammed with big signals.

The highs and lows of the weekend may best be summed up
with the brief conversation I had Saturday night with
a GW on 80m.  I asked whether he could listen for me
on 40 where I needed him.  He said 40 was not open at
that moment to my QTH, but he had heard my signal on
160 but didn't manage to get through to me. It was now 
daylight there and too late to try again on 160.


     Continent List  2008 ARRL FONE DX N4TZ/9 SOAB LP

                   160    80    40    20    15    10   ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --   ---
  USA calls   =      0     0     0     0     0     0     0
  VE calls    =      0     0     0     0     0     0     0
  N.A. calls  =     17    31    21    40    31     3   143
  S.A. calls  =      9    13    22    38    66    19   167
  Euro calls  =      5    35    39   173     0     0   252
  Afrc calls  =      1     3     6     5     0     0    15
  Asia calls  =      0     0     0     2     0     0     2
  JA calls    =      0     0     0     3     0     0     3
  Ocen calls  =      0     3     7     4     8     0    22

  Total calls =     32    85    95   265   105    22   604


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