[3830] ARRL 10 NN7ZZ(N5LZ) SO CW HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: NN7ZZ
Operator(s): N5LZ
Station: N5LZ

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: Utah
Operating Time (hrs): 21

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  525    80
  SSB:           
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Total:  525    80  Total Score = 168,000

Club: Utah DX Association

Comments:

The Ten Meter Contest is like a box of chocolates â€" you never know what
you’re going to get, and everyone seems to get something different â€" and
it’s never fair.  It was a tough slog this year from northern Utah except for
two nice openings to the East Coast - a great one Saturday morning and a shorter
one Sunday morning.  Saturday’s opening gave me 141 QSOs and 32 mults in about
90 minutes.  The rest of the Qs were pretty tough going, until the last couple
hours when the band opened again east and southeast.  The anticipation always
keeps me in the chair however, as one never knows when the band will suddenly
open.

I’m still trying to figure out why the rules were changed to add Mexican
multipliers.  When the announcement came out around April 1 it seemed so absurd
to me that I was convinced it had to be an April Fool’s Joke.  It didn’t
make any sense to me then, and still doesn’t.  Why try to fix a contest that
isn’t broken?  Now that it’s done it certainly has changed the dynamics of
the contest.  We can forget all the old records and essentially start over I
guess?  I logged 14 Mexican mults, which added roughly 30,000 points to my
score â€" but it likely did the same for everyone else â€" so go figure?

This has always been one of my favorite contests, and this year was no
exception.  Thanks for the openings, and thanks for the Q’s.

Station: K3 and Alpha 89 to a 3 element SteppIR at 52 feet.

73, and Merry Christmas,

Don, N5LZ


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