ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: N1EN
Operator(s): N1EN
Station: N1EN
Class: SOUAB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 28:40
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 10 9
80: 160 49
40: 206 59
20: 563 72
15: 288 68
10: 28 18
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Total: 1255 275 Total Score = 1,035,375
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Station:
Flex 6600M
2×10-40m Fan Dipoles @ 50ft
80m Carolina Windom @ 55ft
160m Inverted L w/ Folded Counterpoise
A few weeks ago, Amazon, for some reason, teased me with a desk bell. On
impulse, I got it...and added it to the keyboard tray of the shack computer.
Admittedly, my little pistol station is certainly nowhere near the stature of
the big multi-multi stations where ringing a bell is a traditional celebration
of getting a new mult...but it did bring a smile to my face during the slog on
Sunday. The fact that the cat attempting to sleep in my lap kept giving me
dirty looks whenever I used the bell just added to my amusement.
Conditions Friday night and Saturday were reasonably good, albeit with quite a
bit of auroral flutter. Nice to see 15m alive, and 10m alive enough that I
really need to figure out some kind of gain antenna that will pass the
XYL-tolerance test.
Then the geomagnetic storm hit....and Saturday evening turned into a bust.
However, they seemed to recover somewhat Sunday morning, and more fun was to be
had.
Passed the goal I set for myself right at my lunch break Sunday, before taking a
3-hour shift remoting into a multi-op. Operated the last two hours from my
station; sadly 40 wasn't as good as I would have liked, but I was surprised with
some late mults on 20, 40, and 80.
My rule of thumb for a "good contest weekend" is 1000 Q's in 100
countries. Between disturbed conditions and COVID still taking a toll on
contesters' travels, I only logged 84 countries. Even so, I had fun.
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