[3830] ARRL Dig N8URE SO1R-8 QRP

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                    ARRL Digital Contest - 2023

Call: N8URE
Operator(s): N8URE
Station: N8URE

Class: SO1R-8 QRP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:     
   40:     
   20:   53
   15:   55
   10:     
    6:     
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Total:  108  Total Score = 758

Club: 

Comments:

I have no idea what my real score is. The ARRL submission page calculated 758
from 69 QSOs, despite having 108 in my log. Maybe I got caught by the crazy
"2 times off" rule. Does that even apply to the 8-hour category? Since
I'm not a lawyer, I don't know. It's just another reason this is an unloved
contest.

As soon as I started the first night on 20m I remembered why I didn't like this
contest the year before. It was so crowded it was hard to complete a QSO. So I
went to 15m and just focused on S&P of all the DX stations in SA, OC, and EU
that I could find. At least this year a lot more stations were sending 73 so I
knew the contact was completed. Sunday morning and early afternoon was pretty
dull. I guess everyone else was using it as one of their 60+ minute breaks.
There was good action again Sunday at the end of the contest.

Adding to the dullness, 10m was dead and as a DX contest with no mults there was
no incentive to use lower bands like 40m or to try 6m.


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