[3830] WPX CW KL7RA M/S HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: KL7RA
Operator(s): AL7IF K6AW KL7RA KL7SB N1TX
Station: KL7RA

Class: M/S HP
QTH: ALASKA
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:   63
   40:  361
   20:  799
   15:  780
   10:    1
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Total: 2004  Prefixes = 732  Total Score = 4,447,632

Club: 

Comments:

The WPX code is really our best contest for rules that allow Alaska to post
somewhat competitive scores, no Europe necessary on the low bands, etc. Just
the wrong time of year for us. The CME didn't help with an A of 35 and a lot of
folks quitting when the bands didn't improve.

Still it is a CW contest and even on a bad day this is good thing. Good CW crew
this year with five ops for a serious Multi Single with no hardware limitations
and going for a good/great score. No one to work didn't dampen our enthusiasm,
even the nicest day of the year since last summer didn't. The bands are going
to blow open at any time and we had hints of that being true with signals on
ten being loud for a few seconds off and on.

But they didn't. Sputter to the end. Instead of band sweeps for mults in units
of five we went to band changes when we found someone new to work?? Oh well.
Next year.

Thanks to Steve, K6AW and Wigi, AL7IF for flying up to Kenai and Larry, N1TX
and Steve, KL7SB for flying down to Kenai. 

Next up, station maintenance and fishing.  

73 Rich KL7RA and crew.  
p.s. The one Q on ten was a ZS6. 100 WB5's would have been better.


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