[3830] WPX SSB KP2/NE1RD SOSB10 QRP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: KP2/NE1RD
Operator(s): NE1RD
Station: KP2/NE1RD

Class: SOSB10 QRP
QTH: St. Thomas
Operating Time (hrs): 14

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:     
   40:     
   20:     
   15:     
   10:  360
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Total:  360  Prefixes = 180  Total Score = 135,540

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

I returned to the same villa I used last year for my 15m effort (SOSB15QRP).
This year I was SOSB 10m QRP and conditions were reasonable. I did not
hear much from Europe (a disappointment) and my location has a big hill
between me and South America so North America and points West had to be
my bread-and-butter.

I built a 10m 3-element Yagi on an 8-foot boom and fed it with a length
of 9913. This is a very quiet location so most everyone was an easy copy.

I sat and called CQ most of the contest pausing only occasionally to run
up-and-down the band for S&P. My rate was about half that of last year's
15m effort (and the band closed earlier). Plus, for whatever reason, things
didn't heat up on 10m here until about mid-day. Well, I am on vacation so
that just meant extra sack time!

Near the end of the contest I worked a VK. I hope I never get so old or
jaded that I stop feeling the wonder of working somebody halfway around
the world with the power equivalent of a night light!


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