ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: NP2KW
Operator(s): NP2KW
Station: NP2KW
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: US Virgin Islands
Operating Time (hrs): 18.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 88 22
80: 0 0
40: 381 53
20: 916 57
15: 897 52
10: 0 0
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Total: 2282 184 Total Score = 1,259,664
Club:
Comments:
It as my first (and last) High Power attempt. At 23 hours into the contest (and
sleeping 9 of those due to a very long friday at work) I had 1800 qso's and
935,000 points, wow, on pace for 3500 and 3 0r 4 million points, I thought.
Then at 2330 on Saturday, the cold front that had affected the East USA coast
and flooded what's left of Haiti, moved in (still is at the time of this post).
It completely put an electrical shower curtain between KP2 and North America! So
I slept 6 more hours, and I only logged 497 qso's after that. It was a steady
heavy drizzle under black skies that looked like snow, it also set a record low
temperature for March. It made for even worse noise levels (s-9 +10).
I have a General ticket,..and kept being chased from 3800 and up by the Latin
and USA rag chewers,..so no 80.
WTF happened to 10? I worked a 300 qso/hr rate the prior saturday! But didn't
hear a single W/VE all weekend,...weird,..especially seeing PJ2T being spotted
like crazy and not hear them.
Spent most of those 18 hours explaining to the rest of the world that i was NOT
in the USA but instead a DX, to no avail,..so It was easier to give them a
report, not log it, and move on, which hampered my qso rates significantly. At
one point I had an EA pile-up that had to be broken up.
I was seriously going for 33 or so hours, but only managed 18, and it rained so
much all day Sunday that I didn't really get anything done until after 2000z,
when 20 finally shut down the Europeans, who pretty much covered the entire
band all day, and the rain slowed down.
I was very impressed with the operators from W/VE, whom allowed and helped with
a 360/hr or 8 qso's per minute for a 3 hour pile-up on 15. Never did I have to
tell anyone to please standby ( otherwise known as shut the hell up while I
finish with this qso ), the discipline was amazing! The mere mention of even
one letter automatically silenced everyone who did not apply, making for very
fast qso's, until the occasional dx station jumped in for a chance to log KP2
by any means necessary. I was called by numerous EA's,ZS,PY,CE's, even JA's and
ZL's ( whom never seem to be around when they do count), to name a few.
But it was a good warm up for WPX, where I have a crown to defend in SOAB (A)
Low Power, only thing is,..It falls in the same time this year with my yearly
Easter holidays family camping trip. So portable I shall go,..no problem mon.
73
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