[3830] ARRL 10 W1SJ SO SSB HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2023

Call: W1SJ
Operator(s): W1SJ
Station: W1SJ

Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: VT
Operating Time (hrs): 16

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:           
  SSB: 1272   115
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Total: 1272   115  Total Score = 292,560

Club: Radio Amateurs of Northern Vermont

Comments:

Conditions were pretty good. It is what I call a “hub year”. In peak years I
run up 2500 QSO’s. And in the slack years, maybe a few hundred, if that.
Conditions were different on both days. In fact my daily QSO rates were quite
similar (83-Sat, 75-Sun). I started late on Saturday (15:15Z), but started with
monster rates. Locally, it was reported that the band was in and out at 13:30Z
on Saturday. At this same time on Sunday, the band was fully involved. After a
while, I noticed that the band was going in and out. A fade would happen, things
got quiet, and the rates dropped. Then it suddenly picked right back up and
everyone was calling CQ on top of me. 

One thing I noticed was that Eastern Europe was missing. No Russia, Ukraine,
Belarus, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Turkey etc. But in the other direction, I had
a good number of AK and HI in the log, plus VK, ZL and FK8. There were a lot of
DX south of the border in the log.

Best conditions in many years and I didn’t work too hard for this one.


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