[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): 41

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  372    51
   80:  552    56
   40: 1030    58
   20: 1276    59
   15:  509    46
   10:   16     6
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Total: 3754   276  Total Score = 3,108,312

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment:  IC-7000  CT-Win 9.92
Antennas:  A4S at 25 feet, 40m dipole at 20 ft, 80m dipole at 30 ft, 160m Inv L
(50 ft vertical)

After five years, I have finally seen an increase in my score. Here is a
comparison to last two years:

          2010            2009           2008
160m     372/51          467/53         410/49
 80m     552/56          683/55         608/51
 40m    1030/58         1049/58        1039/55
 20m    1276/59         1257/60        1204/58
 15m     509/46           25/10         296/46
 10m      16/6             3/3            2/2 
Total   3754/276        3484/244       3559/261

Bermuda is not the Caribbean.  Propagation is similar to the mid-Atlantic
states.

Ten meters remains essentially closed.  The only credible signals were from
Texas.  The others were near ESP with QSY's from other bands.  I checked the
band often and had quite a few unsuccessful QSY's from other bands.

Fifteen meters has come back as everyone has observed.  The propagation was
very interesting in that Saturday featured a pipeline to Philadelphia and an 
fan outward to the west.  There were no signals north or south of PHL.  On 
Sunday, it was mostly stations west of a line from Lake Michigan south to the
Florida panhandle.

Twenty meters is twenty meters.  What can I say!  It is the band.  I do very
well in the morning picking up stations in W9 and west as the band hasn't quite
opened up to Europe and I'm loud there.  And the beam heading to VP9 is easterly
and I'm in the beamwidth to a Europe pointed antenna.  Finding a frequency is
the main problem and I generally end up around 14050 to 14070.

Forty meters is always a good band and I try to milk it out after sunrise to
pick up stations that are just waking up.  It is interesting to be able to work
the west coast two hours after sunrise in VP9.

My numbers are down on 160m and 80m this year.  I think I spent the same amount
of time on these bands and it may have been less activity.  The propagation was
good to all areas of the US and Canada.

This was my tenth year as VP9/W6PH.  My hat is off to Ed Kelly, VP9GE, who
couldn't be a better host.  All that I need to bring is my IC-7000, my
computer,
and my enthusiasm.  I'll be back for the ARRL DX Phone.

                           73, Kurt, W6PH


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