ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: NR6O
Operator(s): K7GK
Station: N6RO
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 40:03
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 62 19
80: 187 55
40: 635 82
20: 595 84
15: 360 70
10: 66 27
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Total: 1905 337 Total Score = 1,917,867
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
I guess this contest was a lesson in flexibility. Initially, this was planned as
M/M operation, but as other ops couldn't make it for various reasons, I was
offered to do a solo effort from Ken's great station.
I knew from the start, this couldn't be a super-serious effort since my work
commitments prevented me from starting on time and an uncertain ionospheric
situation would probably not result in optimal conditions. What I didn't expect
was that the first two hours of the contest I would be spending in wonderful Bay
Area traffic, which wasn't helped by the rain an poor visibility. Speaking of
rain, it didn't help the noise situation on the lower bands at all. Neither did
help the challenging conditions, particularly the inability to have a decent run
into EU. Pretty much from the start at 02:42 I was falling more and more behind
my last year's progress, although from a different QTH (@K7ZSD), and ended up
with about 500 QSOs less. I guess operating from an unfamiliar station, with
the logger I'm not particularly accustomed to didn't make it any easier.
Despite all that, this was another fun-filled weekend. The highlights were
finally seeing some activity on 10, including a few JAs; successfully moving
BV1EK from 40 to 80 to 160; good 40M into EU, especially the first evening.
Disappointments were the lack of 80M LP opening, with a notable exception of
UA6LCN (thanks, George), very poor 40M LP both mornings, and as mentioned
before 20M and even 15M into EU.
Many thanks to Ken, N6RO, for letting me play. See you next time.
Denis - K7GK/6
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