[GCARC] AB2E SO(U)AB HP ARRL DX SSB

[Agustin Neron Properties LLC]

Hi all,
Couple things I would like to point out to you budding HF folks (whether you are learning CW, or are a SSB op, or even digital). The activity in a major contest like this is amazing. I had DXCC this weekend on 2 bands (10 & 15m), and only needed 7 more countries to make it on 20m. I have a small tribander on a 50ft FD military mast for a tower, and otherwise, all wire antennas, so you don't need a super setup to do well & have fun. Try getting on the air sometime in a contest. Don't be intimidated, there are always beginniers out there in every contest. Even just to build up your DXCC totals and have fun (note that maybe 99% of all contesters are already on LotW and routinely upload their logs. I already submitted my contest log this evening, and uploaded 2100QSOs to LotW.
There were more than a few rare entities in the contest this weekend, even the Temotu expedition was in the contest, H40WA.
 
Also, so far as I know, that wonderful HF station the club has was dark for the whole weekend. It's a shame to have something that would be extremely competitive  sitting there unused.
 
OK, just trying to encourage some of you to develop your HF skills and have some fun along the way.
Say, FD is only 3 months away! We could really use some more operators, especially on CW! So practice up, there's always a seat somewhere to help out at FD.
 
73
Darrell AB2E
 
ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2024
Call: AB2E
Operator(s): AB2E
Station: AB2E
Class: SOUAB HP
QTH: SNJ
Operating Time (hrs): 33.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 11 10
80: 139 57
40: 143 72
20: 388 93
15: 498 103
10: 871 108
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Total: 2050 443 Total Score = 2,724,450
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
Rig: FTDX-9000D/OM Power 2000A+
Antennas:
160m Inverted-L +HiZ4-RX array
75m - dipole
40m - dipole
20/15/10 C3S Force 12 tribander @52ft
Op time: 33.5 hours
Wow, what phenomenal conditions for most of the weekend. First 24hours were
amazing, and what a joy to have 10m the band with the most QSOs for a change
(almost 900)! Weekend DXCC easily achieved on 10m & 15m, did not quite make
it on 20. Fri night I picked up a few mults on 160 but it was generally my
toughest band.
This is my highest score from home ever for this contest.
No breaks the first night except for a 1hr nap around 0900UTC. By Sat evening,
it was really slow, having already worked most of the available mults. By
0700UTC Sun it was decided to get some rest and start fresh at 1100UTC which was
a good strategy. Caught 10m as it opened up, and had a 300 QSO run the first
2.5hours there Sun morning, but remained on til mid-afternoon.
Great moment - about 5min before the end of the contest I broke a huge pileup to
work J88IH for a final new mult, boosting my score by almost 9K points in the
process!
I cracked 1meg by Sat morning around 9AM, the earliest I have ever done that in
this contest. My other goals were achieved, to make at least 2meg, and make at
least 2000QSOs.
73
Darrell AB2E

Contest: ARRLDXSSB
Band QSOs Pts Cty Pt/Q
1.8 11 33 10 3.0
3.5 139 417 57 3.0
7 143 429 72 3.0
14 388 1164 93 3.0
21 498 1494 103 3.0
28 871 2613 108 3.0
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Total 2050 6150 443 3.0  Score: 2,724,450
1 Mult = 4.6 Q's

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