[3830] WPX CW W3EF SOAB LP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: W3EF
Operator(s): W3EF
Station: W3EF

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    2
   80:   51
   40:  597
   20:  713
   15:  427
   10:   67
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Total: 1857  Prefixes = 785  Total Score = 4,111,830

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Well that was hard work.  Sooooo much tougher than last year.  Just staying in
the chair and alert was more of a challenge than usual, given the noise, low
signals, and lack of rate throughout the contest.  It's rare to see the skip on
20 so short that Europeans CQ in my face (despite a 6-element yagi) as they hear
only one another.  But that went on for hours...only in the last few hours of
the contest did I get anything like a 20m run, and 40 was not quite up to
scratch either.  So with the total Qs down about 12% and mults down about 20%,
my claimed score is some 33% below last year.  That said, I'm still pretty
happy with my score under the circumstances.

As usual in WPX, I worked all kinds of juicy DXCC mults that would have been
fantastic in CQWW or ARRL DX.  But about half my mults were USA this time,
especially given the poor propagation.

My station Do List keeps getting longer and more urgent.  My upper 20m beam is
freewheeling after the recent windstorms, so that was out of commission; the 40
has an intermittent connection up on the boom, the 80 and 160 radials are slowly
falling apart, and the beverages don't work any more.  Anybody wanna do some
tower work?

73 and thanks to all, especially the organizers,

Maury W3EF


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