[NCC] ARRL 10 K8MR SO Mixed LP

[Jim Stahl]

If you have to this one at a sunspot minimum, you ought to do it from Florida and hope for some sporadic E skip. Good to work lots of NCC/MRRC folks. Most were rather weak down here, ranging (from memory) WD8S who had a good signal, to WB8JUI who was truly ESP.

Happy Holidays to all!


73  -  Jim   K8MR


> 
> Subject: ARRL 10 K8MR SO Mixed LP
> Date: December 11, 2016 at 6:52:28 PM EST
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, k8mr at arrl.net
> Reply-To: k8mr at arrl.net
> 
> ARRL 10-Meter Contest
> 
> Call: K8MR
> Operator(s): K8MR
> Station: K8MR
> 
> Class: SO Mixed LP
> QTH: FL
> Operating Time (hrs): 9
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   CW:  215    43
>  SSB:   44    17
> -------------------
> Total:  259    60  Total Score = 56,880
> 
> Club: Florida Contest Group
> 
> Comments:
> 
> This contest exceeded expectations, with the good west coast opening on Saturday
> and some decent Es on Saturday night and Sunday. I started with the hidden
> vertical in the trees, but after visitors left at noon on Saturday I was able
> to put up a dipole in an outside tree, at about 35 feet. This was several
> S-units better, and made things fun at times. RBN comparisons with K5KG and
> K1TO were down 15-20 db, which is about what one would expect. But I was now at
> least a mediocre low power station rather than a hidden antenna weak signal
> generator. There is still urban noise here, but I could at least run at times.
> There were a few people calling who heard me but I was unable to copy.
> 
> Most worked state was CA with 38 Q's, followed by a tie between IL and OH at
> 22. Things to the east were difficult, with only one W1 QSO, with K1KI, and one
> each in NJ and DE. No VE1/2. But I had an Idaho run - three ID QSOs out of five,
> around 1720Z on Sunday.
> 
> Last contest of the year, heading north to NJ on Thursday with no radios. See
> you all in 2017!
> 
> 
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
> 
>