[UK-CONTEST] ARRL DX CW G3YMC SO QRP All band

[Dave Sergeant]

Summary for G3YMC:

Callsign       : G3YMC
Claimed Score  : 126,474 
 
Created by     : SD V9.95 and SDCHECK V9.96
 
Contest        : ARRL DX Contest
Date(s)        : 15/16 Feb 2003
Mode           : CW
Single/Multi Op: Single
Section        :  QRP


                     160    80   40    20   15   10     Total

  Valid QSOs:    0     13   64  103   58  156     394
  Total States:    0       7   21   26   23    30     107
  Total Points:    0     39  192  309  174  468  1182

TX/RX      : Elecraft K2
Power o/p  : 5W
Antennas   :  60ft longwire at 20ft

Comments
I enjoyed this contest, the first time I have ever had a serious 
attempt at it. It is indeed a contest where the smaller station can 
have a reasonable crack at and I would encourage seperate RSGB awards 
for it. As noted, there are already listings in RadCom, but it seems 
not much UK support for the QRP section.

With my station I did not even try for QSOs on Top Band (which would 
have wasted much time with little chance of success) but I did have 
some success on 80. Personally I found 15m hard, it never really 
seemed to open with me, whereas 10 and 20 certainly did. Perhaps my 
longwire has a null in that direction on 15, or was it conditions? 20 
stayed open much later on Saturday than Sunday, and I ended up with a 
little run on 40.  Operating hours, not sure but I guess it was 
around 25.

Nice ego booster in this contest to send 005 for my power and get 
comments back like 'fb QRP'!

73 Dave G3YMC

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