It's amazing what a little Solar Flux will do.  Friday it was at 106 and trending up.  Today (Monday) it is 116.

Friday:  10M band dead, nothing to work.

Saturday: A little EU around 9AM.  Worked everything I could not knowing if it would be better or worse on Sunday.  Worked the ZM4T and a couple of VK's in the late afternoon.

Sunday: I could hear the east coast working EU and a half an hour later it opened up for us.  Worked a good assortment of EU's (F, DL, G, I, etc) and had a little run going for about an hour.  As usual, Sunday afternoon was real slow.

Best DX worked: 5T, 7Q, V5, 9H1, and in the pacific VK, ZL, KH6 (several), FK

Best part of contest: EU finally opened after years of silence.  Was able to work some pretty weak stations.

Best surprises:

The 7Q was calling CQ and had a REALLY BIG pile-up I could not bust.  He left for a little while, but I left a reminder up to check on him just in case he returned.  When he came back, I was the only caller.  Easyyyyy

The FM5 was calling CQ next to me.  Easy…. 

The 9H1 answered my CQ

Not so good: Despite the Power company fixing several power pole noise issues to the east that hosed the CQWW SSB contest, a couple still remain.  I worked through them on Saturday, but on Sunday it put a 3 S unit damper on my morning EU run.  Every so often it would clear up for a minute and things would be great, only to return.  All this from a road that had been pretty trouble free for years.  The road is about a half mile from my QTH and runs from NE to SE, pretty important directions.  My apologies to all the EU's that I requested fills from.  If I can get that direction cleaned up, perhaps my base noise level will be half as good as WW4LL's.  I was there about a month ago for a visit and couldn't hear a single power pole buzz (using AM mode) no matter what direction his top antenna was pointed !  Nada, nothing !  Lucky guy.  He has a great location for contesting and some great hardware.

Jeff, W4DD

-----Original Message-----
From: webform@b4h.net <webform@b4h.net>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 3:16 PM
To: 3830@contesting.com; w4dd09@gmail.com
Subject: CQWW CW W4DD SOSB10 HP

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2020

Call: W4DD

Operator(s): W4DD

Station: W4DD

Class: SOSB10 HP

QTH: GA

Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:

Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries

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  160:                   

   80:                   

   40:                   

   20:                   

   15:                   

   10:  318    24       54

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Total:  318    24       54  Total Score = 59,436

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Glad to see a little Solar Flux and some EU on 10M.  Worked a couple of VK's on Saturday afternoon and ZM4T sure had a great signal into the SE US on Sunday

afternoon.  ZM4T was the only ZL heard.    Activity seemed up and it was a good

CQWW CW considering DXpeditions were curtailed because of Covid.

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