[3830] ARRLDX SSB VE3BR SOAB QRP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: VE3BR
Operator(s): VE3BR
Station: VE3BR

Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: FN03es
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:           
   80:   17    16
   40:   48    36
   20:   47    31
   15:   35    24
   10:   43    30
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Total:  190   137  Total Score = 78,090

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Comments:

Radio: Ten-Tec Jupiter @ 4W
Antenna: DX-Eng 80/40 Thunderbolt 55ft Dual Band Vertical
Software: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.4754.0

Part time (13 hours, S&P only) attempt at QRP contesting. The highlight was
working VK4YB and ZM4T on 40 the first night; both appeared to have very few
callers (not spotted yet?). 40 m was my best band with perfectly resonant
antenna. Everything else was an extremely hard (and very frustrating) slog:
endless calling with many repeats of my callsign, corrections upon corrections,
most of time to no avail. I heard so much more than I worked that I find it hard
to believe I left so much "on the table". My forehead is black and
blue, and swollen from banging my head against the wall. In essence every Q I
made was only because of the operator and set-up on the other end. I might try
QRP again, but when I do it will likely be CW rather than SSB...


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