[3830] WPX CW KD9MS SOAB LP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: KD9MS
Operator(s): KD9MS
Station: KD9MS

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IL - USA
Operating Time (hrs): 12.5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    2
   80:    2
   40:   36
   20:   74
   15:   89
   10:   23
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Total:  226  Prefixes = 184  Total Score = 102,304

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Comments:

Well this was a nice surprise! I didn’t have to DJ a wedding, birthday party, 
prom or anything this weekend, and since school is out, I didn’t have anything
to do, so imagine my joy when I finally got my new shack calendar from CQ
magazine and saw there was a contest this weekend. Normally I don’t like WPX
contests because you have to exchange numbers. So when an operator gives me 599
2148 and I give back 599 T74 (074) then I feel kind of inadequate. But this was
a FREE weekend so I jumped in, free because I didn’t expect to work it and
didn’t have to plan off for it!
Everyone was nice coming back to me with the numbers again and again, since
there was a solar storm going on, I had trouble with some of the lighter
signals especially from northern EU AS direction. Why anyone would send code at
any time at 40 wpm  on 40m during a solar storm baffles me. I recorded some from
last fall and played it for my astronomy class so they could hear some serious
auroral flutter, it wasn’t that bad, but everything sounded like a warbling
tone instead of code. 
Still I made quite a few contacts, my 80m inverted L is still up, but with no
coax or radial wires, so not much going on there. 160m was eggs frying here, so
I had to stick mainly with 10 â€" 40. And it was pretty good. I made lots
of contacts and I tried to contact everyone from the Society of Midwest
Contesters club that I heard. Thanks to KB9OWD K9CT and others for hearing my
reply to their CQ. I even got on 15 at 21.069 and called CQ for a bit. To my
surprise P33W came back to me and almost blew me out of the chair! That was a
definite highlight of the weekend.
Again, thanks for the QSO’s, I know my log isn’t GOLDEN because the solar
storm made it kind of hard to pick out the correct numbers, another reason I
don’t really like the WPX CW, but since Terry N4TZ is with the committee, I
thought for the sake of another SMC’er I would try it out and to give out
that KD9 prefix too!
I am looking forward to the WPX RTTY again. I like that one, even if we have to
give out and receive numbers. I had a great time this weekend and look forward
to the beginning of the fall contest season! 
73,
Craig KD9MS


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