[ADXA] ARRL CW DX contest

[BRUCE PLANTZ]

It was nice to hear so much activity on 10 meters.  There was one point where I was working EU, South America and Asia back to back. I had other commitments last weekend so my time on the air was limited but still managed 350 Qs and had a good time doing it. The high point was probably having Indonesia call me while I was running on 10 meters Sunday afternoon. I'm looking forward to the next few years of having 10 meters as a go-to band.  I've been running 10 meters from my SOTA activations and it's always a kick to work DX with 5 wats and a wire up 20 feet. 

 
> On 02/20/2023 5:34 AM w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
> 
>  
> 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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