[3830] WPX CW KZ3M(K3STX) SO(A)AB LP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: KZ3M
Operator(s): K3STX
Station: K3STX

Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:     
   40:  209
   20:  127
   15:     
   10:     
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Total:  336  Prefixes = 247  Total Score = 282,074

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

My first contest after over a year QRT and selling everything. It's like riding
a bike, you don't forget it! It is amazing what a little CW contest will do to
the bands, WOW. It even improves propagation. 
My only antenna is a 20/40 fan dipole towards Europe at about 30 feet; that and
100 watts made it very tough to get any sort of run going, just a few "jogs"
really. Kind of boring, I might have to buy another amp and get those dipoles
up at least 50 feet. But I had fun during my 7 hours (3 hours each night from
0200-500Z), the days were spent at the swimming pool with the kids. I am trying
to learn to get my priorities straight.

I had hoped my "rare" prefix would help generate interest. I am not so sure it
did. I also learned, yet again, that with my small station domestic contests
seem more fun than DX contests; I can not compete in pile-ups with yagis and
kilowatts. But this is why we have Sweepstakes, right!

73 and thanks for the fun. It IS as fun as I remembered.

paul
TS-850S;40/20 fan dipole; N1MM logger; Vibroplex bug


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