[3830] ARRLDX CW W5RU(@KN5O) M/2 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: W5RU
Operator(s): KN5O K1DW NO5W W5RY K5YG
Station: KN5O

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Covington, LA
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   21    17
   80:  154    62
   40:  791    92
   20: 1098   106
   15: 1427   107
   10: 1219    91
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Total: 4710   475  Total Score = 6,694,650

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments:

First of all, my thanks to W5RY (Greg), NO5W (Chuck) and Bill (K5YG) for
traveling to the QTH for the contest.  Also, my thanks to my neighbor K1DW
(Dallas) for his continued support and encouragement.

Overall great conditions on 20/15/10 led to an all-time high QSO count for us
in this contest.  With the rising K index on Saturday night, 160 and 80 were
very challenging.  Thankfully 20 was open almost all night for us. So our
normal amount of time spent on 160 and 80 was cut in half.

We had one minor glitch with one of the computers/N1MM and lost about 30
minutes of operating time on both stations.  Other than that, no other
equipment failures - well maybe some Op failures, but that is to be expected. 
At least no one fell asleep during the graveyard shift.  This year we missed
one of our regular Ops, Joe W3GW, who couldn't make it this weekend. Joe would
normally work the graveyard shift with me.

Our mult count was down as compared to last year as we concentrated on running
and hoped the mults would eventually show up.  We're not set up to have an
interlocked run and mult station paired on each band and struggle to have
enough operators anyway.

But for each contest and each year that passes, we get a little better and find
things we can change and/or improve for the next time.  And even as far south as
we are, the weather the last couple of months has not permitted us to do any
antenna work.  Normally we are between 40F and 60F most days and lots of sun. 
Not this year. It has been cold and rainy.. Ideal duck hunting weather..

We were really surprised how long 10M stayed open for us.  At least an hour
past our sunset, we were still running JAs and deep Asia Qs.  I think we stayed
on 15M at least 2-3 hours past sunset.  Hope these conditions exist two weeks
from now for the Phone contest.

Speaking of which, that is the weekend before Mardi-Gras.  If you like
contesting and want to go to Mardi-Gras, let me know.  I'm not liking phone
contesting too much these days, but I'll offer the station for multi-op use
should there be enough interest.

Otherwise, thanks to all of you (the DX) for being there and all of the Qs.  We
hope that we gave you a mult that you needed. So until the next contest,

73, 
Ted KN5O

for the W5RU Team:
KN5O (Ted), K1DW (Dallas), W5RY (Greg), NO5W (Chuck) and K5YG (Bill)


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