[UK-CONTEST] ARRLDX CW G3WW SOAB LP

[Dez Watson]

                   ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: G3WW
Operator(s): G3WW
Station: M0EDT

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Lichfield
Operating Time (hrs): 32

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   22    13
   80:   63    23
   40:  121    29
   20:  271    44
   15:    6     5
   10:           
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Total:  483   114  Total Score = 165,000

Club: None

Comments:

Don't you just love the ionosphere?

A single 160m dipole (at 40 ft) is very mediocre for all-band contests, and
this one is especially poor on 15m so it was great to see that band in bad
shape! Isn't propagation a leveller.

My 2008 score is slightly up on last years contest thanks to 60 more QSOs,
despite missing 10 mults. As an experiment, last year I went Assisted but this
year returned to my preferred Non-Assisted - the cluster is a distraction and I
score better without it.

Didn't hear a peep on 15m on Saturday but for a 20 minute period on Sunday I
managed half a dozen QSOs. Signal levels were extremely low. I expect there
will be a big difference in scores between Northern Europe versus Southern
Europe - who I could hear on 15m running W/VE. Very challenging.

At least 20m seemed in excellent shape and I managed to get a couple of nice
runs going on Sunday.

There are certainly some very good RXs in North America, and K1GU and K9AY were
my joint winners for the best ears award. Well done guys, thanks for your
patience.

Good to hear several other UK stations having nice North American runs.

FT-1000MP MK-V
(low) 160m dipole
150 W