[3830] CQWW CW N3UM SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: N3UM
Operator(s): N3UM
Station: N3UM

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   11     6        7
   80:  100    13       42
   40:  240    17       77
   20:  445    28       74
   15:  438    24       58
   10:  320    24       64
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Total: 1554   112      322  Total Score = 1,969,926

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Wow.  Sunspots are back.  In every contest my goal is 
to do better than I did last year, but I did not expect to 
claim 1.97 M points this year, blowing past my previous 
best of 1.57 M points claimed in 2010.  

Essentially, the difference was 10 meters.  In the 4 years 
'08 - '11 inclusive, I made 837 to 902 QSOs on 15 and 20 m. 
combined: as a detail, this year about half of those 15 & 20 
QSOs were on 15 m. vs 7-10% on that band in '08 - '10.
BUT, on 10 m. I made 320 QSOs and 88 mults this year 
vs 48 QSOs and 31 mults last year.  Not since 2001 and 
2002 have I gotten comparable numbers  on 10 m. 

My low-band results were down a few tens of QSOs this 
year from '09 and '10, though quite comparable to '08, 
but the slight dropoff from 2010 was buried by the 
avalanche of 10 m. results.  My best one-hour rate was 
on 10 m., 102 QSOs 15-16 Z Sun.  Whenever I CQ'd with 10  
open to EU from this mid-size station in a common zone  
and country, I was buried in a screaming pileup. I worked 
264 EU stations on 10 m. vs. NONE last year. 

And, 10 m. yielded mults far and rare: 9J, KH2, JA, VK, ZL.   
The sunspots also served up mults not heard much in recent 
years on other bands: 5H, BY, KH0, VU, and VK on 15 m., 
and HS, KH0, VK, VU, and YB on 20 m.  Even 40 m. yielded 
4J, A7, and ZD8.


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