[UK-CONTEST] M5X ARRL DX CW

[Justin Snow G4TSH]

Hi All,
Only recently got around to sorting out my entry!

                   ARRL DX SUMMARY SHEET


    Contest Dates : 15-Feb-03, 16-Feb-03


    Callsign Used : M5X
         Operator : G4TSH

         Category : SOSB 15 HP

 Default Exchange : 400

             Name : Justin Snow
          Address : 
   City/State/Zip : 
          Country : England



   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   
 __________________________________________________

   15CW     1477        1430       4290      58 
 __________________________________________________

 Totals     1477        1430       4290      58 


    Final Score = 248820 points.

Low lights: What happened to Nd? and being run off my frequency by D44TD
Highlight: Being called by VY1JA!
Due to the disturbed conditions the Canadian provinces were rather harder
to work than previous years.  The band opened properly in the evenings
which caused me a bit of a problem as I had to drive home on Sunday night
(3.5 hours) and be a work Monday morning!  Made it though.

Ran some interesting statistics when generating my entry, one of which was
to sort the log by State.
Amazing how may Radio Hams there are in California!
Also amazed at how many US stations call you more than once (47 dupes),
suspect quite a few busted spots on the packet cluster.  Real operators
don't rely on the cluster to copy the callsign do they?  Also becoming
quite noticeable how many operators are not reading what is being sent and
unless they hear a transmission ending in '5NN 4TT' they assume that they
are the only station you can hear and must start calling again.  How they
know when you are actually coming back to them is beyond me.  Admittedly
this phenomena is not limited to the US and it is becoming quite common in
pileups all over these days.

Good fun!
I'll be back..
Justin

QSO Distribution:

Ca  109
Pa   93
Ny   84
Va   67
Fl   67
Tx   66
Nj   64
Oh   64
Il   63
Md   56
Ma   54
Mi   42
On   39
Tn   39
Nc   37
Mn   36
Ct   35
Wi   32
Wa   30
Co   29
In   25
Nh   21
Al   20
Az   20
Mo   17
Or   16
Ga   15
Ia   13
Ar   12
Nm   11
Bc   11
Ns   10
Ok   10
Sc   10
Me    9
La    9
Wv    8
Id    8
Vt    7
Ms    7
Ut    7
Ky    7
Ab    6
Qc    6
Ne    6
Ks    6
Nv    6
Sd    4
Ri    3
Mt    3
De    2
Wy    2
Mb    2
Nb    1
Pe    1
Yt    1
Dc    1
Sk    1


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Justin Snow  G4TSH
justin at g4tsh.demon.co.uk