[3830] ARRLDX CW AB1XW SO Unlimited LP

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ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: AB1XW
Operator(s): AB1XW
Station: AB1XW

Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:           
   80:    3     3
   40:   64    34
   20:  181    61
   15:  151    59
   10:   11     8
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Total:  410   165  Total Score = 202,950

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

I started out unassisted, with the intention of doing more running and less
searching-and-pouncing this year. I run 100W from a low-end Icom (IC-7200), and
my antennas consist of a wire doublet in the trees and a ground-mounted
multi-band vertical in the side yard between two houses. When people say
“even a modest station can run in ARRL DX,” they apparently don’t mean
one quite this modest. After several unsuccessful attempts at establishing
runs, I found myself back in S&P mode, which got tiresome pretty quickly.
On Sunday I gave up on the unassisted idea and switched to using the cluster.
After a short initial learning process this nearly doubled my rates. Assisted
is clearly the way to go for a station like mine.


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