I’m preparing for this weekend for the ARRL SSB DX contest. If you need to up the total in your DXCC stats this is a good one to work. The DX is looking for you! Chair time available.
73, John W1AN
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Call/Station/Op: W1XX
Class: Single-Op, All-Band, Non-Assisted HP
QTH: RI
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 30 24
80: 86 50
40: 64 33
20: 222 65
15: 17 10
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Total: 419 182 Score = 226,590
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
Operated in short spurts of time. Much S & P. Conditions were not so good. So much so that everyone gravitated to 20 so that it was often impossible to find a run frequency. 160 to EU was real good the first night. Found that I could often beat out a host of callers answering EU CQs. Didn’t lost much sleep and took in the URI men’s basketball upset of Dayton. 15 was only good to South America. Had fun!
ARRL DX Contest, SSB – 2019
Call: K1ECU
Operator(s): K1ECU
Station: K1ECU
Class: SO Unlimited LP
Cabrillo Category: Single-Op All-Band Assisted One-Transmitter LP
QTH: Pawcatuck, CT
Operating Time (hrs): 11
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 18 17
40: 44 31
20: 74 39
15: 8 7
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Total: 144 94 Total Score = 40,326
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
First time in this contest! Thanks to all the stations who patiently picked me
out of the noise. Wish I had an antenna for 160m.
Managed to work KL7RA through the pile-up. Hope he got my call
right. I still need AK for LOTW Triple Play. Thanks to CTRI for all the help
with contesting. If this is what it’s like when propagation is lousy, I can’t
wait for the peak in the solar cycle.
K1SX
SO “Unlimited” LP
28-24 = 2016 in 2:15 according to N1MM, although it felt like longer.
This was with 60 watts or so on 40 but 10 watts on 20, and a wire. Also I was not able to get on in the morning for 20 to Eu. Overall I got on here and there over the weekend but it just seemed like the pileups never let up. I could sometimes break them with 60 watts CW last month, but not on SSB. I did catch KH6J on 40 at 10pm local which was kind of a surprise. So more projects– a 20m filter for the amp, and figure out how to run it on 24v instead of 13.8. But first, 6 meter season. Great job Charlie! I’m still on the SSB contest learning curve. Fwiw I agree conditions were really bad.