[SECC] WPX CW AA4LR SO(A)AB LP

[Bill Coleman]

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Date: May 30, 2010 10:52:21 PM EDT
To: 3830 at contesting.com, aa4lr at arrl.net
Subject: WPX CW AA4LR SO(A)AB LP
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                   CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: AA4LR
Operator(s): AA4LR
Station: AA4LR

Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
Band  QSOs
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 160:    0
  80:   10
  40:  214
  20:  338
  15:   69
  10:   23
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Total:  654  Prefixes = 358  Total Score = 485,090

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Antennas:
Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m (10-40m)
80/40m trap dipole at 10m (40m, 80m)
Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m)

Equipment:
K2/100 w/ KAT100

Comments:

I wanted to put in a solid effort for this contest, and managed to put in a bit more than 19 hours. That was pretty good considering the time I couldn't operate on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning due to other obligations.

Found conditions really unusual. Bands were really open right at the start. I got distracted and ended up on 10 and 15m until 0230z. Small mistake. Instead of heading to 40m for the 6-pointers, I spent too much time on the higher bands chasing 1 and 3 pointers. Got a full nights sleep and hit the radio again at
1100z. Conditions were very much different Saturday. 20m never fully opened to Europe. At one point early in the afternoon, I could hear several south american stations working europeans on 15m, but the band never really opened to the east.

Saturday night, I did not repeat the mistake and was on 40m at 0100z. Much easier to work europe than on 20m!

Sunday was pretty much a lost cause until 1900z, when I got back from church. High bands were open,  15m to the south and 20, to Europe. Had fun right up until the end of the contest.

Never could get much of a run going on 15 or 20m. However, in the last hour of the contest, I had a pretty good run on 40m. Had a bit of equipment troubles. For some reason, N1MM tends to crash Windows 7 and it automatically reboots before I can read the blue screen of death. This happened perhaps a dozen times
during the contest. Last time was 10 minutes before the end of the contest. Lost one QSO with DL3D. Drat.

Result is my best WPX CW score ever. Passed my previous personal best of 275,000 Saturday night. Ran SOA for the fun of it.

Had a great time.


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Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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