[3830] WPX CW VY2TT(K6LA) SOAB HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: VY2TT
Operator(s): K6LA
Station: VY2TT

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: PEI
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:   58
   40:  753
   20: 1456
   15: 1664
   10:   93
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Total: 4024  Prefixes = 1171  Total Score = 15,059,060

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

My strategy was to not operate the last 3 hours of the contest which have been
slow the last few years, so I saved a lot of off time. I worked the first 22
hours straight. When I got down to only having an hour left to operate at
19:50Z Sunday, I was sure I wouldn't make 15M points. I needed to get mults and
I seriously thought of taking my remaining 60 minutes in small chunks to try to
work "fresh meat" mults. But then I worked a couple of mults and stayed with 15
meters and wound up with 21 mults and 93 QSOs in that last hour, just breaking
15M points.

I started the contest on 40 meters with the 2nd radio on 20 meters. I had a 120
first hour but 20 sounded better and as soon as I started running on 20 meters
the rate jumped. My previous best hour in WPX CW had been 144 QSOs. In the 01 -
04 hours Friday night I had 171, 170, 160 & 158 QSOs. Perhaps the jump in rates
was due to smaller pileups with a couple of bands open at a time.

20 meters was open to EU all night both nights. 15 meters became runnable to EU
at 09:15Z Saturday and Sunday.

All equipment and antennas worked flawlessly thanks to Matt, KC1XX who was here
with Andrew for a couple of days before the contest. The WARC antenna actually
went up. After 10 years of owning this place, the antenna farm is finished!!!

Overall, a great format - you get to sleep a couple of times but they have to
be the right times since there is lots of activity, you have to copy a number,
you have to take double 40m/80m points into consideration, the zero point rule
is dead (great rule change) so there are no more "no point to it" QSOs.

73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT


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