[3830] ARRL 10 WQ5L SO CW HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: WQ5L
Operator(s): WQ5L
Station: WQ5L

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: MS
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  908   133
  SSB:           
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Total:  908   133  Total Score = 483,056

Club: 

Comments:

Mixed Mode or CW Only? Always a tough choice. Last week one of the cats made
this easy for me by knocking my Pro Set to the floor, breaking the boom mic.
Okay! CW it was.

I used the amplifier for a while, but after too many people tried to log me as
MQ5L I figured out that there was a problem with the keying relay. So, I ran
barefoot (200W) from then on, mostly. Antenna was an 80M Inv-L through a tuner.
It vastly outperforms my resonant OCF dipole. *shrug*

DX conditions were very good, but not great. The openings were there, but the
signals weren't quite as strong as in recent weeks, especially the JAs. I
didn't even hear a UA0, which is unusual. 

Closer to home, I had no problem sweeping the USA mults and the Canadian mults
except LB/YT/NT/NU. Only two Mexican states worked, though. =(

E skip was nil the first day, unless I missed it, until it popped up Saturday
evening. I was out from roughly 6-10pm local, and when I got home there were
several loud signals from W9/W0. A few diehards were still CQing when I went to
bed after midnight. On Sunday there was plenty of short skip to the mid-Atlantic
and upper midwest from late morning off and on until the end.  73,

-- Ray WQ5L (there is no MQ5L, is there?)


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