[3830] ARRLDX SSB VA7ST SOAB HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:           
   80:   31    24
   40:   55    31
   20:  368    75
   15:  162    39
   10:   77    20
-------------------
Total:  693   189  Total Score = 392,931

Club: Orca DX and Contest Club

Comments:

* FT-2000 + SB221 (~500)
* 3 ele. Steppir @ 27'
* 40M Steppir dipole @ 27'
* 80M 2-el. vertical array, E or W
* 270' short Beverage due east

Flux = 105-110 A= 10+ K=2  C-class flaring

ARRL DX SSB = Plenty of hard work, long slow times, but moments of great
enjoyment.

Stopped  for a few minutes and listened to N7DD working Europeans at will on
15M Sunday morning. I had time, because not a single signal from Europe was
reaching BC at the time -- nor any time on Sunday. Great work Larry -- 1800 Qs
and 118 mults on 15M from the southwest.

Worked one F station on 15M Saturday, but had to point to the southeast (60
degrees off the prime heading, along the skirt of the auroral oval, I guess) to
get their attention. The strong skew offered up a couple of other southern
Europeans a while later, but not many -- and it never did straighten out as it
has in recent contests.

Despite some of the worst overall conditions in a while, I broke my personal
best thanks to 10M providing some mults and a few Qs this year. Without Europe
on 15M, it still felt like a lousy outing.

Had a good run of 118 Europeans on 20M Sunday morning (1529z-1626z) but the
path went out like a light after precisely 57 minutes of fun, and never
returned. After that, only big-guns made it over the pole.

Mults were marginally higher than last year on 40M and 75M, but Saturday night
was rather poor on both bands.

Highlights were the hour-long Euro run on 20M Sunday morning, and a JA run on
15M early Saturday evening. Amazing how strong even the 5-watters were. And one
50-watt station was booming, though he had six elements aimed at me, hi. 

-- Bud VA7ST

http://www.va7st.ca/home.html
http://www.orcadxcc.org


           2009          2010          2011          2012
 Band   QSOs  Mults   QSOs  Mults   QSOs  Mults   QSOs  Mults
------  -----------   -----------   -----------   -----------
  160:     -      -      -      -      -      -      -      -
   80:    27     18     20     17     20     18     31     24
   40:    41     28     46     27     46     29     55     31
   20:   312     68    640     75    313     79    368     75
   15:    36     16     64     24    206     58    162     39
   10:     -      -      -      -     41      6     77     20
-------------------   -----------    ----------   -----------
Total:   416    130    770    143    626    190    693    189

Score:      162,240       330,330       354,540       392,931


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