I almost forgot this! Please post your results for this contest here by replying to this posting. I was not very active yesterday (Sat) but will probably make a few contacts today. I guess conditions are pretty good!
Thanks…
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
In between shoveling, Christmas shopping, etc, I got on sporadically. Conditions to were pretty good. Sunday PM things sloooooowwww doooownn. Had fun.
ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: KS1J
Operator(s): KS1J
Station: KS1J
Class: SO CW LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 782 122
SSB:
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Total: 782 122 Total Score = 381,616
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
Had an excellent time on a favorite band & contest of mine …with a pretty serious 1st-time QRP(!) effort. I may be a convert to this 5 watt thing (just during solar maximum, only CW, and just 10m – & only in a contest). Thrilled at the results…of course band condx were very good and LOTS of aluminum was hearing me. Know this would have been fun from the W1AN op seats (heard your call John)…thanks for the M/Op offer.
Rick KI1G was worked, and heard vy often making many QSOs (assuming SO2R & big effort)…look forward to seeing his showing. Ditto for KS1J. Funniest moment was coming upon John W1XX Saturday PM & answering his CQ … but up at 38wpm (prev. set for answering a South American speed demon!) and getting from John “?Call?” Woops, sorry John — but what a laugh I had in my shack! OK – now, back down to 30wpm.
Yes, slow later on Sunday per KS1J (esp as a single mode op) after Eu dies, and band was not quite as good this 2nd day either. Overall, great fun this year in this event. It may be a long wait until it’s this good again…
Add’l comments below. My best to all club members for a nice Holiday season…73, Bill W1WBB
ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB
Class: SO CW QRP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 22:30
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 477 110
SSB:
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Total: 477 110 Total Score = 209,880
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
First sustained effort at QRP…figured with expected fine propagation I could
be heard somewhat during the weekend and I could improve upon the Section
record for ARRL 10m ‘test Single Op QRP CW (@ only 10k pts). With 200k+ pts
logged by contest’s end I’m stunned and amazed with what just a few watts and a
decent directional antenna can do on a very open 10m band!
Band conditions, esp. Day 1, did NOT disappoint! While running was never very
productive for me (using 5w & only a broadband Hexbeam up 32′, at just 115’
ASL) I was amazed at all the quickly answered DX S&P calls I made…many,
many great ears and CW ops out there. I worked often up high in the band, with
folks crowding above 28.150 on Saturday!
Wow!! Appears about 56% of my contact totals were with DX — non US/VE stations
— with me running flea power…what a blast! Lots of long haul QSO fun on the
10m band this weekend, no doubt. ZM4 and ZM90 were farthest worked – FB guys!
And over 220 Eu QSOs, with a few Middle East/N. Afr included. Could it likely
be 11 more years before we see another ARRL 10m contest with excellent
conditions like this?!!
The Saturday Eu opening was stronger and lasted longer into the local afternoon
here. North America sigs were then very loud here and sustained. Vy few
repeats required all day. Sunday Eu not quite as strong and faded much earlier
it seemed. Likewise N/A not as strong Day 2, more spotty and with earlier sig
fade…but I did have some hard-earned backscatter success Sunday working IL,
OH, NC, DE, NY & NJ with QRP. Tnx to those patient ops! All states west
of Mississippi River heard and worked.
Sporadic-E heard only here for a short while just Friday eve… but with 5w,
unable to cash in on any of those mults other than KE9I in IN – nice! Some JA
heard Saturday eve briefly with decent sigs but none heard near end of Day 2.
Many, many thanks to all the ops able to put my QRP sigs in the log. I hope
you had fun on the low end of 28 MHz working CW like I did!
Rig: Icom IC-706MKIIG (loaner de KW2G – TNX!) @ 5 watts output & MFJ
digital mtr
Ant: K4KIO broadband 5-band Hexbeam (G3TXQ-style) up 32′(10mH)
other: N1MM logger with ancient Dell computer (apologies for occasional
lagging comp. generated CW due to apparent CPU overload –
mostly resolved) & Vibroplex paddle/MFJ keyer for some fills
Only 3 hours in this one and really sorry that I didn’t put in more ‘cuz conditions seemed to be really good when I checked the band during the day. I heard/worked KI1G early on and heard W1AN once but didn’t work him.
Call: W1XX
Op: W1XX
Station: W1XX
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: RI
Op Time (hrs): 4.0
Summary:
Mode QSOs DomMults DXMults TotMults
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CW 278 43 40 83
Total Score = 92,296
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Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
…just diddling! Congrats to Bill W1WBB on a great QRP score!
Call: K1SD
Class: SO SSB LP
QTH: Rhode Island
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW:
SSB: 98 46
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Total: 98 46 Total Score = 9,016
Club: CT RI Contest Group
A very small time all S&P Saturday only effort.
73 James K1SD
My congrats as well. Great QRP score! Conditions were quite excellent but you did great in snagging those New Zealand Q’s. Great job, Bill
Jim KS1J
Great to hear all of the CTRI activity this weekend on 10.
I started out serious but between intermittent power line noise from several directions and multiple plasma TV interference also from different directions which drifts all over the place I had a hard time keeping at it.
Final Score 2105 QSO’s 68 Sections 84 DX = 1279840
SO1R HP CW Only
Hope everyone has a Merry XMAS.
73,
Rick KI1G
Not much time in this one. Did a little S&P on Saturday and ran some Sunday in the verrrry slooooow period near closing. Started out in QRP and then later found out the rig was at 50 watts instead of 5. Bad eyes. Didn’t see the decimal point. So I ended up in the LP category. Thankfully I never sent /QRP
Congrats to all with the great scores!
John, W1AN
Fabulous effort Jim for your P/T work.
Good news is it appears new RI Section records were set in this contest in HP CW, LP CW and QRP CW by CTRI CG members KI1G, KS1J & W1WBB respectively…based on posted claimed scores which significantly exceed previous record achievements. Would be nice to have our club members represented in the ARRL 10m ‘test recordbooks…FB job guys! 73, Bill W1WBB
W1WBB ARRL 10m contest addendum…As SO CW QRP worked 110 mults — 47 US/VE/Mex (39/5/3) + 63 DX. Logger shows only about 13% QSOs made ‘running’ and rest were S&P…about as expected running 5w on a crowded band!