[ADXA] ARRL CW DX contest

w5zn at w5zn.org w5zn at w5zn.org
Mon Feb 20 06:34:07 EST 2023


Sounds great Dennis !!!!

Just a reminder to everyone, please do not forget to submit a log and 
list "Arkansas DX Assn" as your ARRL Affiliate Club. We are in the drop 
down box on the web submission form.

73 Joel W5ZN


On 2023-02-19 21:08, Dennis Schaefer wrote:
> I started out planning to cruise for some new band counters.   I also
> wanted to test my “guy wire sloping vertical” on 80 and my 160m
> inverted-L.   The 80m did very well, with 38 Q’s and good signals from
> Europe.  The 160m is effective and produced booming signals from down
> South but noise covered any EU.  it did let me work ZF5T, though, so I
> got them on 6 bands again.
> 
> Saturday morning blew my plans up, though.  I did some searching and
> pouncing on 10 and there were so many EU stations that my rate stayed
> between 120-150 per hour, and then I called CQ.   You’d have thought I
> was on Bouvet - the EU pileup was amazing.   I hadn’t intended a big
> effort, so I extracted myself during a lull and did other things until
> working a few JAs in the early evening.  After the 10:00 news, I did
> one run through 40 meters, and worked a few more on 80 and 160.
> 
> I slept until almost 7 on Sunday.  I worked a JA on 40 for the
> multiplier, and did one pass through 20 meters, then 15.  Then back to
> 10 for nonstop action for a couple of hours.   Late in the day,  I
> collected a few mults on 20.
> 
> The final score was 404,000, with over 600 Q’s, 424 of which were on
> 10 meters.  Including time spent chasing new band counters, messing
> with antennas, etc, I spent about 10 hours.
> 
> Dennis/RZ
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