N6ZFO 2015 ARRL SS CW SOLP "A"
ARRL Section : SF
Club: Mother Lode DX/Contest Club
Time: 21.5 hours.
Band QSOs Sec
80 175 4
40 250 12
20 158 11
15 167 7
10 149 48
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Total: 899 82 = 147,436 points
Equipment: FT-1000MPMkV at 150 w.
Antennas: 3el Yagis 10, 15
2 el Yagi 20m
40m DE Zepp at 80 feet for 40/80
Comments: The delayed, reflected signals on 80m Sat night were bizarre, making for difficult operating while hearing one's own signal coming back a fraction of a second later. Maybe this phenomenon was connected with the CME that grazed the earth on Saturday?? Oddest propagation phenomenon I've heard in 60 years on the air.
What's was striking about the contest weekend is the almost even distribution of QSO's across all bands.
The score was an increase of 26,000 compared to last year. But not by any means my best. The poor 15m conditions hurt badly. It was generally difficult to sustain runs, with a few notable exceptions, one during half of the last hour on 40m. There was one "internet pileup" on 20m that was beyond belief for about 15 minutes, with rates of almost 3 per minute. I tried very hard to make 900 QSO's, cq'ing to the last minute, but fell one short. In the last 90 mins of the contest was able to increase the score from 130,000 to the final 147,000 thanks to the spectacular run on 7056.
Never heard NT; all other mults came easily and multiply, except for PR and NL with one Q each. One of the last mults was QC; a qrp station called in on 80m late Sat night.
As per request from W1RH, will hold off on submitting log until we're sure this score is OK for the Medium Category club effort.
73 Bill N6ZFO