[3830] ARRLDX SSB NA8V SOAB LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: NA8V
Operator(s): NA8V
Station: NA8V

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 41.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   15    15
   80:   92    49
   40:  124    58
   20:  284    85
   15:  491    80
   10:  282    64
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Total: 1291   351  Total Score = 1,347,840

Club: East Lansing DX Clug

Comments:

Very up and down with much rough sledding.  40 seemed to collapse at ~02z Friday
night but 80 and 160 were fair so spent my time down there with a few Q's on 20
thrown in.  40 was a struggle all weekend, 80/160 were better the first night
but not much depth.  Where were all the DL's?

20 opened fairly well Sat am, had a brief run with a few Asians thrown into the
mix - including JT5DX.  15/10 were all S&P, had decent rate for the first pass -
I would hear those same stations a LOT for the rest of the weekend.  10 was all
bent path on Sat to EU but workable.  Had a decent run on 15 at mid-day, the
only time I could run for an extended time on that (or any) band.

Worked a few EU on 40 Sat afternoon, then except for a 1/2 hour S&P into JA on
15 everything seemed to collapse.  Couldn't find much of anything to work.  Had
only 2 qso on 160 the second night, the 05/06/07 hours yielded rate of 6/1/2. 
Spent a lot of time calling stations on 160 I can usually work easily without
success.  The skip seemed much better than the activity.  Spent 5 mins calling
RL3A on 80 before i realized the verts were pointing SW, but that time he was
fading.  One of the highlights was catching him for my last Q of the contest.

Sunday things continued poorly.  My low band sweep in the 11z hour yielded no
QSOs and I had only 9 q in the 12z hour.  Not sure if it was condx or the
operator.  Probably both.  I got a couple short burst runs on 15 before going
to 10.  Had a fair run there, not fast but steady.  No Scandinavia and few
Eastern EU.  Decided to abandon that for the High Rate on 15 which i knew was
there - again couldn't do more than a few short bursts.  Managed a steady
25-30/hr from 16z on.  10 provided a  slow but steady diet of LU and PY
stations.

While at times it was a major struggle, it was a good contest.  Raising my TH6
made all the diffence in the world.  Next project is something better on 40.

greg/na8v

D1   13/13    79/44    80/43   217/72   330/70   104/43            823/285
D2    2/2     14/5     46/15    67/13   161/10   178/21            468/66

                    160    80    40    20    15    10    30    17    12    ALL
                    ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---    ---
       NA calls =     6    22    26    41    40    31     0     0     0    166
       SA calls =     3     9    13    42    49    78     0     0     0    194
     Euro calls =     6    59    79   180   377   161     0     0     0    862
  African calls =     0     2     3     6     5     9     0     0     0     25
    Asian calls =     0     0     1     7     1     1     0     0     0     10
    Japan calls =     0     0     0     2    16     0     0     0     0     18
    Ocean calls =     0     1     4     6     3     2     0     0     0     16

    Total calls =    15    93   126   284   491   282     0     0     0   1291

6 bands:  PJ4G  P49Y  HK1NA  VP5H  EI7M  CS2C  CR2X   TO22C   8P5A  
5 bands:  31 stns


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