[3830] NA Sprint SSB AL9A HP

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                    NA Sprint SSB Contest

Call: AL9A
Operator(s): AL9A
Station: AL9A

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Wasilla, AK
Operating Time (hrs): 2.2

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:   0        0
   40:  14      1.2
   20:  25      1.0
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Total:  39     Mults = 7  Total Score = 273

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Team: SMC #1

Comments:

I knew this was going to be a bummer when I took a look at the solar indexes
just before the start of the contest.  Up 2100 hrs the A index was running at
2.  At 2100 it jumped to 17!  By 0000 it was at 18!  Today the HIgh Latitude
College Station index report shows an A index of 25 at Fairbanks, AK for Feb
14th.  That pretty much wiped out any hopes I for decent propagation during the
contest.  20M died early, 40M was limited to West Coast only (TX & MT was as far
east as I worked) and 80M was unusable.  This is supposed to fun right?

After only 2 hrs of contacting mostly high power CA stations I called it quits.
 The S7 to S9 noise in my ears was becoming painful and it was frustrating to
hear a CA station call CQ, get a response from the lower 48 and then yield the
freq to a station I had absolutely no copy on.  Tough to get into a rhythm that
way!


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