[SCCC] K0XP Stew Perry Topband Challenge - Spring

[Steve Harrison]

                     Stew Perry Topband Challenge - Spring

Call: K0XP
Operator(s): K0XP
Station: K0XP

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: DM24
Operating Time (hrs): 09:13

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 109  Total Score = 630

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:
Where were all the US entities, like KH6, KL7, KP2/3, and KP4?? Never heard a one last night. Conditions to Europe for the easterners seemed way down, as I only heard one or two of them responding to Europeans, and thus the easterners seemed to be listening our way more than usual. Nevertheless, I felt most of them were having heavier QRN than usual as they definitely were not copying me as well as I could copy them. OTOH, conditions TO the east seemed pretty good to me, better than usual at least. I was hearing a lot more than I could work. I was surprised to easily work PJ2T and ZF9CW an hour before my sunset; but that success did not morph into working US easterners. It was also nice (and a real score boost) to be called by half a dozen JAs, but I couldn't copy HL3EJE well enough to call him. I ran outta battery capacity a half hour before sunrise; had I kept things on, my batteries might have shut down 8-O