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

Mon Mar 4 18:49:24 EST 2024

 Darrel,
Great job and messge to the GCARC club. I tried to get in but had mucho distractions. And, for the life of me, can't figure out how to get N1MM+ voice messaging to key the rig. Maybe next time!
ALso, for you and Tony and whomever runds FD, I'm always willing to share the chair with someone who wants to build their CW and contest skills.
Dennis 
    On Monday, March 4, 2024 at 08:04:42 AM EST, Tony Starr <tstarr1450 at gmail.com> wrote:  

 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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