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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2021 Call: W6PHOperator(s): W6PHStation: W6PH Class: SO Unlimited HPQTH: Lone Pine CAOperating Time (hrs): 36.8 Summary:Band  QSOs  Mults-------------------  160:  19    10  80:  141    33  40:  493    57  20:  689    90  15:  129    41  10:    2    2-------------------Total: 1473  233  Total Score = 1,029,627 Club: Southern California Contest Club Comments: K3S Expert 1.3K-FA WinTest 4.11Slopers for 160,80 40-2CD, 3L20, 5L15 on AB-577's at 60 feet A3S at 40 feet After taking a year off because of my disgust with FT8 and digital contestingand selling off my radios, I decided to get back into a contest.  I repurchasedsome radios.  I am getting too old to crank up my AB-577 masts, so I got my 16yr old neighbor kid to help me out.  All the antennas were still working and therotators rotated.  Then I found that the big knob on my K3S would stallintermittently. I got through most of the weekend with it not stalling.  Butwhen it did, I just clicked on cluster spots until it started working again. Conditions were really pretty sorry.  I didn't work any Europeans on 40m thefirst night.  They were weak and the east coast was a curtain for me.  Thesecond night got better as there weren't that many East Coasters calling. Icherry picked through the loudest signals which were really pretty weak.   I made a pretty bad tactical mistake on Saturday.  I stayed on 20 meters becauseit was really productive and I figured that 15m would be closed to Europebecause of the poor conditions.  When I finally went there, it was the tail endof the Euro opening and I missed quite a few easy mults.  I figured I would fillthem in on Sunday.  I made a quick look at 10 meters and got in on the last twominutes of the opening.  I never heard another signal again on 10 meters.  Well,Sunday turned out to be worse than Saturday and it was S&P all day.  Eventhe Asia opening toward the end of the contest was no where near as productiveas Friday and Saturday afternoons.  But the JA's were a bottomless pit all nighton 80 and 40.  JA's made up 53 per cent of my total contacts. There were very few highlights.  Working 9G5FI on 80 meters to make four bandswas pretty neat.  While tuning on 20 meters around 9 am local, I ran across avery loud 9M2ZAK calling CQ with no responses.  This path shows up in goodpropagation and it surprised me. I looked for more deep Asians but didn't findany. One of the coolest contacts I heard was my friend K5MH working TK5MH. Even though I find any decoding of radio signals with computers to bedistasteful, I put that behind me and really enjoyed the contest.  This was myfirst ARRL stateside since 1999.  I went to VP9 for 21 consecutive years.  Covidput the kabash on it. The antennas will be lowered this week until the fall contest period.  We getstrong winds here on the high desert.  No reason to tempt fate. 73, Kurt W6PH  Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/