ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 12.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 18 12
40: 38 24
20: 206 41
15: 41 19
10:
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Total: 303 96 Total Score = 87,264
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
IC-7610 + Acom 1000 + Steppir 3/40
On the bright side, it won't take long to import 303 QSOs into DXkeeper. A
high-power personal worst, and a sliver away from my all-time worst ever
including low power.
What a rotten weekend playing radio, which still makes for a good weekend vs.
anything else. Bands were horrible with an A-index of 20+ and Aurora level 8 for
most of it. If you're not in the far northwest, that might not mean much but
from here it wiped out most of our opportunities for mults and rate to Europe,
and that is a death-knell for competitive scores.
Even the JA advantage from the west coast was not much of an advantage, with
signals from across the Pacific generally weak and not found in big numbers.
Managed a slow 20M run to JA/YB in the final hour, which was most welcome, but
overall the contest was a lot of hard work for very little payoff.
Didn't make a lot of Qs or mults on 80M, but the loop-on-ground RX antenna is a
keeper compared with receiving on the full-sized vertical. (http:va7st.ca for a
writeup).
Watched contestscoresonline.com through the weekend, and it sure did help keep
me going at times when I otherwise would have taken a few more breaks. Was
comforting to see others in the Pacific Northwest struggling along with me -- at
least I wasn't alone in misery.
Kudos to Gabor VE7JH for a 20M single-band effort from Vancouver Island at
VE7UF's awesome station. Gabor found 33 more mults and 550 more Qs than I did on
20M.
Next up: FT4 DX frenzy next weekend. I'll be in there looking for everyone. Oh,
and I guess there's also the CQ 160M SSB. That dripping sound is our cup
runething over.
-- Bud VA7ST
https://va7st.ca (contester's diary)
Year QSOs Mults Score
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2021 303 96 87,264 HP 12.5 hrs
2020 675 175 349,740 HP 19.0 hrs
2019 640 178 341,760 HP 17.5 hrs
2018 276 107 88,596
2017 366 147 161,406
2016 654 214 419,226 HP
2015 1511 257 1,164,981 HP
2014 928 231 643,104
2013 750 224 504,000
2012 917 245 673,995
2011 658 208 410,592
2010 908 201 547,524 HP
2009 688 163 332,031 HP
2008 504 156 235,872 HP
2007 609 157 286,839 HP
2006 571 176 301,488
2005 444 167 222,444
2004 307 132 121,572
2003 235 122 86,010
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