[Mldxcc] CQWW CW N6XI SOAB HP

[Richard Tavan]

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: N6XI
Operator(s): N6XI
Station: N6XI

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: SV (Truckee, CA)
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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   160:   16     8        8
    80:   31    19       30
    40:  115    28       60
    20:  326    29       87
    15:  117    23       49
    10:    3     2        3
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Total:  608   109      237  Total Score = 595,812

Club: Mother Lode DX/Contest Club

Comments:
No, I wasn't "just playing around," the usual sobriquet for a part-time 
contest operation. In fact, I exchanged that phrase with a few email 
correspondents during my many, long breaks. But some time Saturday 
evening, completing a few more post-lightning repairs and other chores, 
I realized that what I was really doing was following W6SX Hank's advice 
to have fun. When else can you find the bands packed wall-to-wall with 
activity? When else can you make DXCC in a matter of hours and pick up a 
few ATNOs? What better way to figure out how your station improvements 
and repairs are working, how well your station plays, how often you win 
"jump balls," how long it takes to break various kinds of pileups, how 
your SO2R skills are holding up and, hopefully, improving? In the 
current phase of the sunspot cycle, how often can you run Euros from the 
West Coast, or BYs on 40? (BYs are the new JAs, you know.) So this 
casual weekend of ham radio, which doesn't even deserve to be called an 
"effort," was really a pleasure. I hope yours was, too, and Happy 
Thanksgiving!

/Rick N6XI