[3830] CQWW CW K2LE M/2 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: K2LE
Operator(s): K2LE N2UN N2GA W2LK W1VE
Station: K2LE

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: VT
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   34     9       18
   80:  324    18       86
   40:  742    34      126
   20: 1535    36      132
   15:  585    29      113
   10:   33    13       18
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Total: 3253   139      493  Total Score = 5,882,024

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

A fun weekend was somewhat ruined by antenna failures- in four separate trips to
Vermont we could not fix the the big Optibeam 4 element 40 antenna destroyed in
the ice storm last winter. To make matter worse, a sizeable storm hit us Friday
night ( 5 inches of snow ) and high winds made the remaining low band antennas
to act up intermittently. Our crew worked through all of these problems and
came up with a respectable score.

One interesting observation was the BUSTFEST on the packet clusters. Had never
seen so many calls posted in error. At one point Sunday afternoon I counted 11
of 19 calls busted ( that's 60 % man!) such as VV47NT, DAL1A, etc. But the real
winner was the call of EC6TK on 7099 kHz- DOUBLE BUSTED as EK6TK and EC6TKT by
some leftover turkeys.
It is not a unique phenomenon, however, in the US - we were spotted somewhere
in Europe as K3LE, which prompted about a dozen calls - all dupes of course and
a big waste of time. Oh well, you can't win'em all..

Tnx to all - especially those who can still copy calls correctly..

73 Andy and the K2LE gang


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