ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N2IC
Operator(s): N2IC
Station: N2IC
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: New Mexico
Operating Time (hrs): 43
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 19 16
80: 145 48
40: 638 80
20: 410 86
15: 1086 108
10: 810 89
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Total: 3108 427 Total Score = 3,981,848
Club:
Comments:
I was pretty ambivalent about doing this contest right up until the start time.
I finally decided that, based on reports earlier in the week, this was going to
be the last hurrah for 10 meters. I had visions of 1500+ QSO's there and a few
thousand more QSO's total on the other bands.
Did SOAB HP UNassisted. Until I did the assisted thing in CW, and went back to
unassisted this weekend, I never appreciated how being unassisted gives you
much more of a flavor for what is going on around the bands than point and
click.
Friday night was great fun. 20 stayed open all night. Even had a (rare) EU
sunrise opening on 20. 80 % of my 20 meter QSO's were made Friday night. Very
cool getting called by A6, A7, HZ, 9K. 20 was awful the rest of the contest out
here. Caught between high daytime absorption and low nighttime MUF. 40 was
surprisingly good, especially Saturday night, but, despite trying, never could
run EU. My dreams of 10 meters were shattered Saturday morning. The band didn't
open to EU until 16Z (sunrise + 2.5 hours). A 1.5 hour EU run ensued. 15 was
excellent to EU on Saturday (but didn't open until sunrise + 1 hour), but
impossible to open up a clear frequency. You know the bands are broken (at
least from a western USA perspective) when you make 1300 QSO's from 00Z-12Z,
and only 600 QSO's from 12Z-00Z.
Same story for 10 meters on Sunday, except the band stayed open later. On
Sunday, I had a great 15 meter frequency, which was fortunate, because every
500 watt DL or IZ2 was S1 thanks to a broken band. Severe polar flutter until
around 19Z when it smoothed out for an hour before closing. Thank goodness for
great JA condx and activity on 80-10 or this would have been a weekend to
forget.
This was the first contest ever where more people moved me for the NM mult than
I moved for country mults. Too many times a good mult would call in, and there
was either no other open band to move, or he couldn't/wouldn't move.
Somehow, ended up with pretty good numbers overall. 43 % JA/Asia. 36 % EU. 5.8
% Oceania - that seems up - lots of VK's and KH6's.
Thanks for all the QSO's and no thanks for the QRM :)
73,
Steve, N2IC
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