[3830] ARRL 10 KN5O SO Mixed HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: KN5O
Operator(s): KN5O
Station: KN5O

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: Covington, LA
Operating Time (hrs): 14.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  437    82
  SSB:  344    66
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Total:  781   148  Total Score = 360,528

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments:

This was only a part-time effort.  XYL & I had dinner obligations Friday night. 
By the time I got home (after 11pm), the band was quiet and I didn’t feel like
beating my head against the keyboard trying to work stations M/S.

Saturday brought fits and starts between honey-do chores and trying to get some
on-air time for one of my favorite contests (b/c you just never know what may be
in store).  Even though I started listening about 7AM, I had only logged a few
stations before 10AM because of all the interruptions. 

And of course, just as I was about to pounce on ST2AR some time a bit after
10AM, the XYL calls me to do another chore.  50 minutes later, I finished it,
got back to the radio and regrettably ST2AR was a “GONE PECAN.”  I listened
as he QSB’ed right into the dirt, with no chance to work him. That was my
biggest disappointment.  So I was only able to get in about 11 hours of
operating Saturday and 3-1/2 hours on Sunday.

My best DX and highlights were FR1GZ answering my CQ on Saturday @ 1715z with
my beam to the Northwest (was that unexpected) along with a call from V51YJ on
Sunday @ 1726z, again with the beam to the Northwest!  Overall, I was able to
get 34 countries, not including the USA and Canada.

30% of my Qs were from CA, TX and FL.  In total, I was able to work 44/50
states, missing ME, VT, AR, WY, AK and IL (Illinois- no way! Yes way! â€" How
can that be?  There are always tons of those guys â€" dunno what happened
there.)  I missed six of the Canadian provinces (again, where was VE5, as I
missed that one in the 160M contest too), plus QC (inexcusable miss), LB, NU,
NWT and YT.  And of course, with the new Mexican State mults, I snagged 16 of
32. 

Much of my time was spent CQing. I worked a few S&P that I tuned for and found,
but pretty much ran for the time I was on.  Conditions at times went from the
penthouse to the outhouse.  And on Sunday, I watch the band go dead for about
90 minutes midday â€" and then miraculously come back to life!  I guess the
E-layers were reorganizing!  And for those of you that were patient enough to
give me repeats (due to the severe QSB at times) so I could log the QSO, thanks
ever so much and thanks for being there!  You make the contest.
 
In summary, I bested last years score by 200k points with 2.5 hours less on-air
time â€" not too shabby - so I would say things are definitely improving, albeit
slowly.

To all, please have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year.  Hope to
work many of you in the New (contest) Year, either with my call or our club
call, W5RU.

73, Ted, KN5O

Rig - ICOM PRO III with ALPHA 8410
Ant - 5 ele Hy-Gain mono @ 73 ft and Mosley PRO67 @ 70 ft.
S/W - N1MM, v10.12.2


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