[3830] ARRL 10 N1CC SO Mixed QRP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: N1CC
Operator(s): N1CC
Station: N1CC

Class: SO Mixed QRP
QTH: Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  423    95
  SSB:  336    77
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Total:  759   172  Total Score = 406,608

Club: North Texas Contest Club

Comments:

Radio:  FT-990 Padded to limit power to 5W output.  Force 12 C3 at 63 feet fed
with 350 feel of LMR-400.

I am very pleased with these results.  On a personal comparison basis I beat my
last QRP effort in 2012 from the old location by about 8 times the score.  Last
year that score placed #3 in SO Mixed QRP.  I don't know how well I will fare
this year becasue I have the sense that our propagation was better.

At 5 Watts I got just as many folks on my first call, and did a good bit of
running... getting some nice mults that called in on my CQ.  About a 50-50
split of running and S&P.

Some thoughts about QRP ... Since most of the NTX and STX contesters are
between 100 and 200 miles from this QTH I can often hear THEM on 10 Meters,
virtually none of them hear my QRP signal.  Some of the big guns just plunk
down on a quiet frequency, and for some of them I gave up easily.  One fellow,
who I don't know personally, followed me around and would start CQing, I would
move a bit and he would follow me...either he could hear me and did this by
intention to interfere or he is just a lousy operator.  (He is not a member of
NTCC).  The regular big guns who plopped down on me, just caused me to move --
because I know they could not hear me.  (Some of them should work on their RX
capabilty, because they would have guys calling them that they did not
answer.)

I looked at the spots history after shutting down.  I see that I was supotted
once on CW and three times on SSB -- I did not notice any more commotion from a
packet-generated pileup, as anytime I was calling CQ I would get steady
responses.

The mix of contacts is about even for W/VE compared to DX stations ... and the
conditions did not favor W4, 8, and 9 as I could not work stations that I tried
to get in the states that I was missing.  THe VE folks had a robust gang that
was able to give me every VE you needed to have, and then some.  Heard 2 XE
stations and was able to work one, if there was more activty you could not tell
it from Texas.

This was a good break-in for knowing how my 10-meter capability will be going
forward.  It was a lot of fun, and worth doing.


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