[3830] ARRLDX CW P40LE(K2LE) SOAB LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: P40LE
Operator(s): K2LE
Station: P40LE

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: ARUBA
Operating Time (hrs): 35

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  217    47
   80:  500    55
   40:  842    54
   20: 1055    57
   15:  880    58
   10:   50    20
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Total: 3552   291  Total Score = 3,100,896

Club: Order of Boiled Owls of New York

Comments:

In  the last minute, I got lucky to get the use of the P49Y/  P49L contest
station, with all antennas working, albeit low power only, no SO2R either. I
set the goal of 2500 QSO, no signals on -s to top my best low power effort of
2400 a few years ago, when 10 m was still a useful band.
Hit the ground running with several 150/180 hours on the low bands the first
night; decent signals on 160, but hampered by LOUD and persistent Europeans
calling incessantly.. Decided to S&P instead of calling CQ. When reaching 47
states and provinces, I did not even get on that band the second night.
Mornings are garbage time here, with all stateside stations beaming and running
EU, can't get any rates going with low power.
Neighbors P49V (HP) and PJ2T (M/M I guess) were  running on 20, while I was
napping. Got a nice late run on 15 just before sunset here - kept checking but
no signals on 10 ( a second radio would have been useful)
Saturday nite was much more noisy on the low bands, so quit early to get a few
hours of snooze time, buy kept waking up due to heavy storm and winds raging
outside.  
Sunday I heard a loud EA station on 10, but he couldn't get anywhere either.
Late in afternoon I heard stations at the of the bean ( LU / PY / CX etc.) but
no dice here...Finally, around 2130Z I heard N2IC from CO on 21025 and he moved
me off the LU pileup to 026 ( Tnx Steve) All of a sudden, stations from the
southeast blew in with S9+30 over signals - must have worked 10 or more TX
stations in a row. There was a short opening to the northeast but pee-weak
signals; then there was the southeast AL and FL again very loud -but darn few -
guess most stations did not even look for 10 to open. In about 45 minutes, it
was all gone..Back to final run on 15 I got the biggest surprise by a call from
VY1 - YUKON by gosh !
It was really great fun , .3500+ Qs and 3.1 Mil pts with low power was 
exceeding my expectations. 
Tnx to  all great ops from W/VE land for their patience and skills, and to Andy
AE6Y John W6LD and Ed W0YK for the use of the station ( they all called in to
check if I'm still alive - HI)
73

Andy K2LE / P40LE


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