[SCCC] Fwd: ARRLDX SSB W6PH SOUAB HP

[Kurt Pauer]

Subject: ARRLDX SSB W6PH SOUAB HP

                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2025

Call: W6PH
Operator(s): W6PH
Station: W6PH

Class: SOUAB HP
QTH: Lone Pine CA
Operating Time (hrs): 9.0

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:
  80:
  40:
  20:  12    12
  15:  23    22
  10:  658    95
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Total:  693  129  Total Score = 268,191

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

K3S SPE 1.3K 1200 watts DXLog
5 el yagi at 60 feet

I wasn't going to get in this one.  I had some workers cleaning up my yard
on
Saturday and I spent the day supervising their work.  They left at 2 pm and
I
decided to go out to the shack and listen around to the contest.  There were
some nice multipliers on the band map and I picked off some of them.  I
spent
some time calling CQ and was rewarded with a nice run of JA's.  I was at
200/34
after a couple hours when I quit. The next morning I went out to the shack
not
expecting any good propagation due to the low SFI and high A index.  The
band
opened nicely to Europe at 7:30 am and I started picking off stations on the
band map. As I was tuning I found a clear frequency on 28627 and called
CQ.  I
was rewarded with a constant stream of callers from Europe for an hour and a
half.  I have never had such a Europeans run before.  It was exciting and
the
rate was much higher than the JA's.  In the end I had more Europeans in the
log
than JA's.  During the last hour it was very slow and I went to 20 and 15 to
pick up some multipliers using my 40 foot A3S which has an intermittent feed
line problem.  I was able to make 35 contacts before the SWR went real
high.  I
finished up the last few minutes on 10 meters with a couple contacts. I
usually
have a goal to work 100 countries on each band.  I was a little short of
that. I
suspect I would have made that if I had operated on Friday night and
Saturday.
One thing nice about SSB is to have a short chat with people who stop by to
say
hi.  I had a number of people stop by.  My friend W6SX espouses the Prime
Directive which is to contest to have fun.  I complied with his directive.
Kurt
W6PH


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