[3830] ARRLDX CW CE1/K7CA SOSB/10 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: CE1/K7CA
Operator(s): CE1/K7CA
Station: CE1/K7CA

Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: Huasco
Operating Time (hrs): 27:31

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:           
   80:           
   40:           
   20:           
   15:           
   10: 2451    60
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Total: 2451    60  Total Score = 441,180

Club: 

Comments:

Great contest.  The pileups were fantastic on Saturday and very well mannered. 
I agree with several other posts that when you click on a station in your
computer list to change frequency automatically you are probably going to zero
beat with one or more other stations.  This really slows things down because I
get exactly zero letters out of any call.  Sometimes I get only the last letter
and if all stations don't reply when I ask for that one letter it works OK but
still delays things.  It would help if you would qsy a few Hz after you get to
the new frequency.  Once I only got VE out of the pileup and asked for VE and
then got 2 stations zero beat calling so tried "VE?" several times and each
time got the same mush.  Then tried VE3? since there are more VE3's out there
and got a very clear VE3 callsign.  Then asked for VE again and a VE2 called
in.  They were both zero beat and about the same signal strength.  Even 20 Hz
offset would have made those 2 qsos several minutes faster.  When things were
slow I would work some of the DX stations that called in but mostly I would say
USA only because it slows things down working stations for zero points. 
However, I did work about 50 DX and most of them gave me their power level so I
guess they didn't know that DX can't work DX.  I even got a power from KG4AS. 
  Thanks for all the qsos and I hope to see some of you in the CQ160 SSB
contest this weekend.  I'll only operate a few hours as I'm packing up to leave
until next November.  73, Al CE1/K7CA

Rig:  K3, Ten-Tec titan, homebrew 5 el yagi on 27' boom 50' above the Pacific.


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