[3830] ARRL June VHF WA2VNV Single Op-All Modes LP

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                    ARRL June VHF Contest - 2022

Call: WA2VNV
Operator(s): WA2VNV
Station: WA2VNV

Class: Single Op-All Modes LP
QTH: NLI - FN30kv
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  190    97
    2:   51    14
  222:   18     8
  432:   25     9
  903:    5     3
  1.2:    9     4
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  298   135  Total Score = 49,815

Club: North East Weak Signal Group

Comments:

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Interesting observation that I had almost the exact same score in 2008 with
49,864 points (no FT8 then) and my station setup is essentially the same.
Operating times basically the same. Even with the total number of QSO's/Grids is
very much the same, the upper band scores suffered from less QSO's/Grids with a
corresponding increase in QSO's & Grids on 6 meters due to FT8 & 6
meters open almost the entire time to somewhere. I also had similar totals in
2009/49,374 - 2010/47,232 with 6 meters also open at times and the past also
being near/at the sunspot peak 10-12 years ago. This contest for me was a much
slower Q rate due to FT8 slow timing and SSB/CW Q's would be faster when the 6
meter band is open. It was hard to find the usual stations to run up the bands,
even at the usual ending last hours rush. When all is said & done it will be
interesting how the Analog only entry stations came out. I did also switch to 2
meter FT8 once every half hour or so to look for new activity & openings.
Higher bands (222 & up) had no FT8 activity for me. I would tune around SSB
on 2 meters looking for contacts while running on 6 meters. Most of the time 2
meters & up was very quiet except for the ocassional auto voice CQ callers. 
Another problem with WSJT built in logging is that it has no dupe checking and
resulted (for me) in a small number of 6&2 meter Dupes (~20+) when I
imported the contacts into my W3KM logger. This results in not knowing which
contact to delete as you don't know which contact the other station is
eliminating or not. So I left them in with zero points.  I also had an
interesting 6 meter FT8 completed contact with unknown GB8QLB station (checked
on QRZ.com) (China) in Grid KG15 (North of New Guinea in water) which I deleted.
 I would have had a LOL or Hi Hi if the suffix of the call was QLF as a bogus
contact. Thanks to all the rovers out there to work. 73's CU next contest. 



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