ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): W6KNS, W6LD, N7MH
Station:
Class: Multi-Single HP
Operating Time (hrs): 28:30
Summary:
Mode QSOs Mults
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CW: 1038 124
SSB: 1398 123
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Total: 2436 247 = 1,717,638
Comments:
I thought I'd start about an hour before the band opened up to the east on
Saturday morning to see if I could work some west coast stations, only to hear
the band open to Europe at 1300Z. I only worked one European station in this
opening, but it was great to hear everyone coming through so early. It was
hard to find many European multipliers, but we worked quite a few European
stations which were mostly in the same few countries.
It seemed like whether we were on phone or CW there were always a lot of
stations to work. The big decision was whether to be on phone or CW at a
particular time.
The hardest part for us as a multi-single was to figure out how to search and
pounce with one radio while CQing with the other. We were finally getting the
hang of it near the end of the contest, but the S&P station had a lot of
trouble hearing callsigns because of interference from the CQing radio. It's
so much easier in contests like CQWW where the two radios are on different
bands.
This one was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again next year.
-Mike, N7MH
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