[3830] ARRLDX SSB NN7SS(K6UFO) SOAB QRP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: NN7SS
Operator(s): K6UFO
Station: NN7SS

Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: WA
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:           
   80:           
   40:   16    10
   20:  140    46
   15:  112    35
   10:   67    20
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Total:  335   111  Total Score = 111,555

Club: Western Washington DX Club

Comments:

Another foolish QRP outing! 

First hour good on 15m, then to 20m for more JA's and 
Pacific, but thick SSB QRM and deep pileups made slow 
going. 20m died about an hour after sunset at 03Z. 

I saw no sense in trying 40m SSB QRP to Eu with a high 
A index, so I slept until 10z to try JA's and Pacific 
on the low bands. At full dark, I heard hundred of DX 
stations, but nothing could be worked on 160m or 80m 
while QRP. Very frustrating. Even 40m only provided 
six countries. 40m was much better at sunrise 15z 
Saturday morning.

Then 20m to Europe, after a little distraction trying 
too hard to work rare DX. Then I remembered, when QRP, 
only try S9+ stations. Eventually, I worked two dozen 
new countries, and even 9K Kuwait! I heard twice as 
many countries that I couldn't work QRP. Three hours 
and the European signals faded, so then tune-and-shout 
to find Caribbean and South America. 10m especially 
faded up and down a lot. Saturday night (Sunday morning 
UTC) on 40m I worked three new mults but otherwise not 
too good for me QRP. Sunday was a lot of tuning for 
new loud stations that I hadn't worked Saturday. I 
could hear Europeans on 15m, but not work any... 

Finally I passed 300 QSOs, 100 band-countries and 100K 
points and after yelling Hooray! my motivator ran out.

Final tally: 64 unique DXCC entities, and this score 
would have been 7th place in W/VE QRP last year.

As usual, many DX stations do not identify often enough.

NN7SS (K6UFO op)

20m-10m: C-31XR at 71ft. 
40m: Force 12 Delta 240 at 78ft  
80m: Half-sloper from 60ft
160m: Inverted L over metal garage roof
Yaesu FT-1000MP turned down to 5 watts
Writelog software


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