[3830] CQWW SSB XE2B SOSB/10 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: XE2B
Operator(s): XE2B
Station: XE2B

Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: AGS
Operating Time (hrs): 24.2

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10: 2501    30       98
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Total: 2501    30       98  Total Score = 775,552

Club: Araucaria DX Group

Comments:

Congratulations to all the winners and new record holders!

The high expectations materialized this time; these were the best conditions
experienced from this location, since I was licensed and working contests since
only 21 years ago!

The only pre-planning was to check probable openings and try to maximize the
3-point QSOs with EU, JA and SA. This time the decision was to go unassisted to
focus solely on skills.

The contest begins for us on Friday night at 19:00 hrs. CST, which normally
gives us an hour or so of 10M propagation.
I started running stateside stations and managed to get a run of 313 Q�'s
during the first 105 minutes of operation. Propagation ended and I went to
sleep at 0219z.
I woke up at 1200z, had some light breakfast with a strong ristretto and
started S&P at 1249z; 
1340z started with what became the best EU run ever had, it lasted until
1700z.
1840z I did a 55 minutes hard stop to have some quality time �"via Skype-
with my daughter KC2GGU, her husband and grandsons -who last month relocated to
Gottingen in Germany. 
Some S&P and then back to running. Halfway thru the period I had already
accumulated 1,400 Q’s.
Last QSO logged -on our Saturday, was at 9:40 PM (Sun -0240z)!
Sunday propagation started at 1259z and this time the last 11 hours were
slightly less intense with runs that led to a count of almost 1,300 Q�'s.
Highlights : 
1)	Being called by P3N, TA7EB, A71BX and many others which normally are very
hard to get a Q from this location due to the NA wall.
2)	13 UA9s stations on the log! Never seen this before on this band
3)	Lows: almost a 100 Dupes!
Top countries:
1.	USA : 1,405
2.	Japan: 308
3.	Germany: 100
4.	Canada: 58
5.	Poland: 50


Best Runs >100 Q’s
2013-10-26	 0000 - 0146Z,   313 Qs, 176.6/hr
2013-10-26 	1340 - 1543Z,   300 Qs, 146.1/hr
2013-10-26 	1708 - 1844Z,   218 Qs, 136.1/hr
2013-10-26 	2004 - 0119Z,   586 Qs, 111.6/hr
2013-10-27 	1259 - 1539Z,   311 Qs, 116.9/hr
2013-10-27 	1743 - 1906Z,   152 Qs, 109.7/hr 
2013-10-27 	2121Z - 23:59,    319 Qs, 121.0/hr

….amusing to hear several stations IDing themselves with QRZ? Instead of the
callsign.
The final two hours of the contest were very intense because VA6MA was closing
in very fast -on the virtual duel shown on cqcontes.ru.
At the end of the contest I had smashed the previous record held by XE1OH since
1987!

Many thanks to all for the Q's 


Rig : FT-1000MP + Ameritron AL-800H
Antennas : 3 ele Yagi @ 27 Mts height


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