[UK-CONTEST] WPX CW G3XTT SOAB HP

[Donald Field]

Good fun and almost made my personal targets of 2,000 QSOs and 3m points.
Indeed, everything went pretty much to the strategy I had worked out with
one notable exception - I had expected Don G3BJ (G5W) to be hosting a
multi-op, but instead he went and did a fb single-op effort, leaving me in
his wake! Focused on the LF bands (double points) so took my 12 hours of
break in the middle of the day (5 hours Saturday, 7 hours Sunday).
Disappointed Saturday at lack of 10m propagation, so it was nice to wake up
Sunday afternoon, come back to the radio, and find 10m full of signals (even
if most of them were only one-pointers). Biggest challenge during the night
hours was working out when to work LF, and when to work the US on 20m, which
seemed to be open 24 hours (huge W7, VK, ZL signals at 0300 and
thereabouts). Tim's (M0BEW/M4K) single-band 20m effort was awesome - it will
be interesting to see what the other 20m single-banders achieved.

      Call:      G3XTT
      Category:  Single Operator
      Power:     High Power
      Band:      All Band
      Mode:      CW
      Country:   England

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/Q PREFIXES


      160       70      148   2.1       49
       80      218      544   2.5       31
       40      552     1841   3.3      238
       20      509     1013   2.0      214
       15      362      746   2.1       86
       10      147      215   1.5       25
     --------------------------------------

     Totals   1858     4507   2.4      643  =   2,898,001


Station: FT-1000D, Alpha 89, Force 12 C-4 at 55ft, 80 and 160 inv-V dipoles
at 55ft. Logging with CT.

73 Don G3XTT