[3830] ARRLDX CW K3TN SO Unlimited HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: K3TN
Operator(s): K3TN
Station: K3TN

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 14

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   31    19
   80:   76    45
   40:  217    78
   20:  484    91
   15:  295    90
   10:   47    48
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Total: 1150   351  Total Score = 1,209,897

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

K3/KPA-500 to 135' OCF Dipole at 45', TS-850, Titan 425, 51' T ant for 160

Mostly used the Reverse Beacon Network for high speed S&P - when I did spend
time running, my rate wasn't tremendously higher. Using the K3 in SO2V mode
with the RBN feed is more like running than S&P, anyway. A few times I got
synched up grabbing RBN spots with much louder US stations (like N3AM), so had
to change strategy but I often found I could be first to grab new mults like
DP1POL and NH2T before a pileup formed.

Every year in the ARRL it takes me a few hours to get used to cut numbers for
power - I never seem to anticipate the PY stations sending "AK"... I think EE5E
should be required to run 555 watts in this contest.

Didn't get on much at night, never found 80 in good shape. There was a great
160 EU sunrise opening on the second night, loud signals but just not that many
EU stations on. 

I was sort of hoping the snow would hit our area on Sunday but it didn't - so
didn't get that much time in on Sunday morning. Towards the end 15 had a great
JA opening - the KW stations were honest 599 on my dipole, with the flux only
at 104. Here's to hoping we get at least one more year of these kind of
conditions.


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