ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: AE5PW
Operator(s): AE5PW
Station: AE5PW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40: 9 9
20: 44 31
15: 56 38
10: 60 27
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Total: 169 105 Total Score = 53,235
Club:
Comments:
Wow, what a weekend. I first got on HF in May, 2008. Around that time, the
solar flux constantly sat at 66-70 (70 was a good day). Now, nearly three
years later, the solar flux had more than doubled to 143 by the time the
contest was ending on Sunday. Amazing.
I never cease to be impressed by what I can work with a very simple setup.
Running just 100 watts from my Yaesu FT950 to a Butternut HF9V vertical (ground
mounted), I managed to rack up quite a few contacts (by my standards). I had
to sit in pileups for a while to get some of them, but patience is a must when
you use a vertical and low power. Thank goodness for voice keying software.
Sunday afternoon as 10 meters was starting to sound dead, I managed to work
ZL3IO in New Zealand at 2143 and then moments later worked E51SC in South Cook
Islands at 2146. The next thing I knew they were both gone. Those were my
first contacts with both of those entities on 10m.
My entire effort was Search and Pounce, and I was definitely assisted by the
Cluster. Most of my time was spent on 15 and 10. It was nice to hear P40A
running QRP 5 watts... they had a big signal on both 10 and 20 when I worked
them.
Hopefully this uphill trend in solar conditions will continue. Just how many
can I work with just this vertical? I guess time will tell.
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