[SCCC] Fwd: ARRL 10 W6PNG SO Mixed HP

[Paul Gacek]

Paul

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> From: webform at b4h.net
> Date: December 10, 2023 at 4:44:58 PM PST
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, w6png at yahoo.com
> Subject: ARRL 10 W6PNG SO Mixed HP
> Reply-To: w6png at yahoo.com
> 
>                     ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2023
> 
> Call: W6PNG
> Operator(s): W6PNG
> Station: W6PNG
> 
> Class: SO Mixed HP
> QTH: Laguna Beach, CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 3
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   CW:  44     22
>  SSB:  32     18
> -------------------
> Total:  76     40  Total Score = 10,320
> 
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Main goal was to take my 10m phone WAS from 44 to 50. I managed to nab two of
> the missing 6 (NH, VT) but the 7-land stations I needed are still illusive (NV,
> MT, WY and UT).
> 
> I operated from home using a HexBeam, KPA500 and K4D. I've never worked a mixed
> mode contest but tried responding to stations using my paddles at 20wpm. The
> reward for this effort is working 21 states CW which has to help my WAS 10m CW
> go from zero to something, right?
> 
> Conditions at my QTH are a bit miserable as I have a huge amount of local noise
> (TVs, wall warts etc etc??) none of it mine which reminds why field operating
> (SOTA etc) can be so rewarding despite the effort to get out from the comfy
> chair at home.
> 
> As an unexpected plus I completed the K1 ATU kit that has sat in a box almost
> done while waiting for propagation to flip into the "remarkable...best ever
> seen" state.
> 
> Fun time but I swear last years participating for 90 minutes on my local peak
> netting a 150+ Q (all phone) was a lot easy due to better propagation.
> 
> Fun and not participating at the peak of Cycle 25 would be an opportunity
> missed.
> 
> 
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