[3830] ARRLDX CW K1ZZ SOAB HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2023

Call: K1ZZ
Operator(s): K1ZZ
Station: K1ZZ

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 43
OpMode: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  105    42
   80:  389    54
   40:  984    78
   20: 1017    82
   15: 1055    91
   10: 1220    86
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Total: 4770   433  Total Score = 6,193,632

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

This is the only contest that I still operate unassisted, more out of tradition
than for any other reason. It’s nice to have the rest of the world looking for
you for one weekend. Inevitably you leave a lot of multipliers on the table, but
some will call while you’re running and you avoid the headache of battling the
frantic cluster pileups except when you stumble across one.

As everyone knows who was on this weekend, conditions were incredibly good.
I’ve operated this contest most years since 1964 and while there may have been
a couple of years when they were equally good the level of CW activity – in
terms of both quantity and quality – is much higher now as the QSO totals
attest.

Late Saturday morning Linda popped into the shack to let me know she was going
out. She came back a few minutes later to tell me that a big tree had fallen and
was completely blocking the driveway, just out of sight from the house. It was
resting on top of the power line on the other side of the transformer; the wires
were sagging but intact so we hadn’t lost power. A call to Eversource got a
crew dispatched within a couple of hours. Of course they had to shut off the
power so they could work, but an investment in a backup generator last winter
paid off and I was able to keep operating with minimal interruption.

It was fun, and motivating, to peek at the online scoreboard occasionally. For a
while Randy K5ZD and Jon AA1K were ahead of me with Steve N2IC also keeping
pace. Then Randy disappeared for a while and Jon began to fade a bit, so I
thought I might have a chance. But then Randy came storming back, leaving Steve
and me to fight for the second spot. We ended up in a photo finish, which for
Steve to do from New Mexico is a real accomplishment. We’re within 0.2% of one
another but I’m sure our logs tell very different stories of how we got there!


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