Can't believe you beat me again Jere! Great score!
Kevan
N4XL
On 3/26/12, Kt4zb at aol.com <Kt4zb at aol.com> wrote:
> WOW - What great scores from SECC...congrats to PJ7T (John, Fred and
> others, thanks for 5 bands), Mark at W4SVO, Kevin, N4XL...worked Jeff, KU8E,
> on
> 10m scatter - made him really work for my puny signal:-)
>
>
>
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> Reply-to: kt4zb at aol.com
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, kt4zb at aol.com
> Sent: 3/26/2012 11:26:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
> Subj: WPX SSB KT4ZB SO(A)AB LP
>
>
> CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
>
> Call: KT4ZB
> Operator(s): KT4ZB
> Station: KT4ZB
>
> Class: SO(A)AB LP
> QTH: Savannah, GA
> Operating Time (hrs): 36
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs
> ------------
> 160: 1
> 80: 71
> 40: 185
> 20: 363
> 15: 433
> 10: 198
> ------------
> Total: 1251 Prefixes = 665 Total Score = 2,048,865
>
> Club: South East Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> Well, for me, it was a case of deja vu...seemed almost like a replay of
> last
> year. Low solar flux, amazing Asia opening, night time fun on 20m, small
> EU
> opening on 10m Sunday, shutdown the station for lighting and low bands
> pretty
> useless for low power work because of the storms Friday and Saturday.
>
> On the other hand - I met my goal of 1200 contacts. Since this is a search
> and pounce contest for me, it's been difficult to break 1200 contacts
> without
> some decent runs. So I set a goal to a least try and get something
> going...wasn't much; but did have a couple of hours worth of runs and it
> worked. As a result, the score improved too.
>
> The DX was very good with Namibia and Senegal on 3 bands, Mayotte, Easter
> Island, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Guam, Korea, nifty UA's and UN's,
> nice
> group of VK and ZL's (7 VK's on 40m) and working 29 JA's from Southeast
> Georgia
> adding to the fun of low power contesting. Some of most interesting
> prefixes
> included DM800, 9A2006, EI100, UE85 and EA720. And, it was nice to add 5
> bands
> with fellow SECC contesters at PJ4Z, Bonaire; also thanks to NX5M for
> hearing me
> on 160m for my only 6 band set (sure they really needed my 1 pointers,
> hihi).
>
> The station worked great all weekend and I might have added a few more
> contacts
> except for having to shutdown for both lighting storms and taking some time
> counted breaks. Next is working to improve antennas for the low bands to
> have
> a better footprint for stateside prefixes. WPX is probably my favorite
> contest
> and the score is a best for this station. Thanks to everyone for the
> hearing
> me and working to get my exchange. Lots of QRM on 15m and 20m so I know
> there
> will be busted contacts. Also, thanks to CQ and the contest committee for
> all
> their work.
>
> Best - Jere
>
> FT 1000-MP Field, TH6-DXX, dipoles in the trees and N1MM.
>
>
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