[3830] CQ WW RTTY N1RM SO(A)AB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2021

Call: N1RM
Operator(s): N1RM
Station: N1RM

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 25:12

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX   Zones
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   80:   78       32      20     9
   40:  303       38      60    17
   20:  474       43      74    23
   15:  203       15      67    22
   10:   12        2       7     6
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Total: 1070      130     228    77  Total Score = 1,120,995

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Despite the boring exchange, this contest was lots of fun form me.

My goals were 24 hr BIC, 1000 Qs, 1M pts, and I made all three with a little to
spare.

I spent about 1 1/2 hours on 20M Friday evening before it was clear that 40 was
the place to be. I had pretty good luck for about 3 hours and even managed a
decent run at one point. At around 3:30am I switched to 80M for about a 1/2 hr
before turning in. It was fun to work KH6ZM on 80M.

I didn't get started until about 11am Saturday, but stuck to it for about 12
hours.  My best run of the contest was on 20M starting about 5:30pm where I
managed 141 Qs at a rate of 81/hr. Band noise and multipath was low enough that
it was almost always possible to pick at least one call out of the pileup.

After church Sunday morning, I got back to it around 10:30am. The bands weren't
in as good shape as Saturday, and it was tough to get traction. So I spent much
of the day S&P on new mults and it was fun and pretty productive. Compared
to last year, I improved my QSO total by about 50% but ended up with more that
twice the points.

Yet another motivation to get better wire on 80M - before the snow falls.

Thanks for all the Qs!
Rick
N1RM

K4D, KPA500 (on 80M), A2000A (other bands)
OCF Dipole on 80, SteppIR DB18E on 40 and up


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