[3830] ARRLDX CW VP9/W6PH(@VP9GE) SOAB LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: VP9/W6PH
Operator(s): W6PH
Station: VP9GE

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Bermuda
Operating Time (hrs): 40

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  467    53
   80:  683    55
   40: 1049    58
   20: 1257    60
   15:   25    15
   10:    3     3
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Total: 3484   244  Total Score = 2,550,288

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment:  IC-7000 CT-WIN
Antennas:  (160) Inverted L (50 ft vert)
            (80) Full wave G5RV 30 ft
            (40) Dipole 20 ft
            (20-10) A4S 30 ft  

Last year I said things couldn't get worse but they did.  It was a 20M contest
during the day and a three band contest at night.  Those 15M and 10M contacts
were at S0, most of them QSY's.  Bermuda is not the Caribbean.  I could hear
Caribbean stations working W's on 15M that I could not hear.  VP9 propagation
is very similar to W3.  But VP9 proximity to the northeast US helps on the low
bands.

There were not that many pileups, just a continual grinding away.  My CQ meter
says that the F1 button was pushed 2989 times but that doesn't count the RPT
CQ's.

Highlights were VY1EI calling me on 20 meters and getting four more multipliers
in the last hour.  I was able to succesfully move VE4EAR, VE5MX, and VY2SS for
new multipliers during the contest.  Other than that everything else answered
my CQ's.

I was glad to try QSY's for a number of people of which only about half worked
because of propagation deficiencies.  This is the longest sunspot minimum that
I can remember since the late 50's.  It seems the solar flux has been at 70 for
the last three years.

Again I appreciate the hospitality of my host, Ed, VP9GE.  He is superb.

                          73, Kurt, W6PH


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