[3830] ARRL 10 N8II SO Mixed HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  290    48
  SSB:  191    34
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Total:  481    82  Total Score = 125,952

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

At 1640Z the contest was over for me, I worked a full shift both days. It was no
"picy-nicy" for sure, about the worst condx I can ever remember. My last mult
and last QSO of the contest drove home that point, I worked a whispering K5TR
on phone for TX. The upper midwest was probably the place to be for this one;
poetic justice for all of the other years when the left coast, FL, and the
northeast had a big advantage. Condx were good or at least decent on Es to IL,
WI, MN, and the Dakotas from 0245Z thru at least 0508Z when I called it a
night.
Thank God for MinneSOTa, I probably worked about as many of them or more as VA
on my doorstep! I will have to say that many ops had the true contesting spirit
and didn't give up and QRT; they were "ping jockeying" with the meteor bursts
and running up the Q's. Guys, you do need to be a little faster on this mode,
no repeats unless the first attempt failed, please.
Highlights were working double hop Es into SK, OR, WA (3 CW Q's within a
minute, then zilch), NV, CO, WY, and MT. I got WA, WY, and VE4 on both modes. 
Only one KS station was worked, Bob W0BH, who moved to phone for the two mults.
48 CW mults on a nearly "dead" band and part time is not bad. The only DX worked
Saturday was PY0FF on CW; Sunday, I worked P43JB and CO8ZZ on CW, and HI3CCP,
NP4A, and HI3TEJ on phone. CQ's on both modes towards the "open" direction
yielded nada.
I hope I made many of you happy with the WV mult; thanks for the calls and
maybe CU in the Stew.

73, Jeff


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