[3830] WPX CW AB1J SO(A)SB40(TS) LP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J

Class: SO(A)SB40(TS) LP
QTH: Waltham, EMA
Operating Time (hrs): 26

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:     
   40:  483
   20:     
   15:     
   10:     
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Total:  483  Prefixes = 339  Total Score = 503,574

Club: 

Comments:

This is one of my favorite contests, but as it approached
I found myself lacking enthusiasm. Medical 
problems this spring and a recent death in the family
have left me depressed and blah. I 
decided that if I wanted to put some zip back into the WPX,
I needed a drastic change, so Thursday I decided to go
assisted, which I have never done before in a major contest.

My 40m DSL modem crashing problem reared its ugly head just 
in time for the contest. This happens periodically for no 
reason I can discern. I still have an AOL dialup account 
for my wife when she visits her mother where there is no 
other Internet access, so I dialed up and it worked fine. 
It's slow but had no problem keeping up with the Telnet 
cluster. I set the filter to CQ zone 05, skimmers on. No one 
here needed the phone since my wife was away for the weekend. 
I kept my cell phone on for any calls.

I went back to 40 because I've done it for two of the last
three years and I could make comparisons. I made a personal
all time high 40m score, although I'm not sure I 
maximized the assistance. For the first two thirds 
of the contest I mostly just worked it into my S&Ping, but 
toward the end, as the the bandmap grayed out, I clicked 
around a lot. It did add new interest to the contest.

I also tried running more this year, especially toward the
end of the contest and got about 23% of my Qs that way, 
which is a lot for my station. A number of "runs" were just 
one QSO, so I should say that CQing got me that 23%.

Thanks for all the QSOs.  See you in the IARU.

73,
Kermit, AB1J


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