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

[Tony Starr]

Hey Darrell,

Phenomenal effort, amigo!  You easily proved that a small tri-bander and
some wire dipoles can produce some very serious results in a DX
contest with some skill, determination, and enough time spent in the chair.
I would love to see at least a few more of our GCARC members follow your
lead and discover this fast-track route to DXCC for themselves. It really
works. And yes, the basic skills required to do this can be learned in a
few hours at Field Day, so hopefully you have inspired a few more members
to come on out and give it a try. Looking forward to it.  73 for now.

Tony K3TS

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 11:19 PM Agustin Neron Properties LLC <
ab2e at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> 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
> -------------------
> 160: 11 10
> 80: 139 57
> 40: 143 72
> 20: 388 93
> 15: 498 103
> 10: 871 108
> -------------------
> 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
> ===================
> Total 2050 6150 443 3.0  Score: 2,724,450
> 1 Mult = 4.6 Q's
>
> Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
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