ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: W1UE
Operator(s): W1UE
Station: W1KM
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: ma
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 26 22
80: 155 62
40: 257 76
20: 477 86
15: 508 78
10: 1008 87
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Total: 2431 411 Total Score = 2,997,423
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
It was a strange weekend! Even with great low band antennas, I could never
really get anything going on the low bands. It seemed like there was an
invisible shield just east of Poland; Russians, usually plentiful, seemed to be
rare on the low bands. 40m is probably the SSB band that I hate the most;
stuffing everyone worldwide into 75kHz is simply loony. On 40m, I would get a
good frequency, get spotted in 2-5 minutes, then get a rate of 250 for 10
minutes, followed by a rate of 50 for 10 minutes, then a rate of 5 for the next
40 minutes. Ops that did drop by said the frequency was good, my signal was
loud, but it seemed that there was no one home in my signal footprint in
Europe.
Nice LP score by Bob WA1Z. Hopefully, 200K is enough of a cushion to hold up
to the log checkers!
Still, a good day doing SSB contesting beats a day of shoveling snow off the
roof! Thanks to all that participated, and particularly to Greg W1KM who
allowed me to use his KB station.
Dennis W1UE
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