[3830] ARRLDX CW AE0EE SOAB LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2019

Call: AE0EE
Operator(s): AE0EE
Station: AE0EE

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   13    12
   80:   21    17
   40:   21    17
   20:   53    39
   15:   35    21
   10:    0     0
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Total:  143   106  Total Score = 45,474

Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn

Comments:

100 W, dipoles up 5-7 m, keyed on a Vibroplex bug.

Conditions seemed pretty good!  While I was hoping that the bands would warm up
enough to support a few 10 m QSOs, I wasn't able to make any contacts there. 
However, 15 m was surprisingly lively, and I took advantage of that.  With
thinner pileups and a band more suitable for a small station, it was nice to
make some headway even if it may have cost some rate and multipliers on 20 and
40 m.

Similarly, Saturday night had quiet conditions on 80 and 160 m, so I spent quite
a while working on those bands to increase my DXCC totals.  I was coming into
the weekend exhausted (as usual), so I wasn't able to put up the effort I would
have liked, but I think with a bit more time on 80 and 160 m I could have easily
 added a few more multipliers.

Before the contest started, I had 14 DXCC on 160 m, including K, VE, KL, and
KH6.  I worked 12 in the contest, and none of those previous four entities were
among them---so if all confirm, two are guaranteed new ones on that band.

I heard T31EU, probably as they were first getting on 40 m around 1430z Sunday,
but wasn't the first to get through and by the time that QSO finished the
skimmers and cluster had alerted the world.  I moved on quickly.

Hopefully we can have good conditions like this in a couple weeks for the SSB
contest!


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