[PVRCNC] VP2ME ARRL CW M/2

[Jim Jordan]

Great report and great job, Will and friends. Thanks for some of those 9k.

One correction. We find at NY4A there are an unlimited number of QSO's 
available for a M/2. They're called US/VE's and DUPE's! (In your case it's 
DX and DUPE's).

73,

Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberts, Will" <Will.Roberts at pgnmail.com>
To: <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>; <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 4:26 PM
Subject: [PVRCNC] VP2ME ARRL CW M/2


> Just getting back home from "Volcano Island" and decompressing...
> Looks like we have a photo finish with TI5W for the lead in the M/2 class 
> as we are 5 QSOs ahead and they have 1 more mult. That's amazingly close 
> after 48 hours and 9100 QSOs! Good job from PVRC's own N3KS,NI1N,KL9A, and 
> sick/absent team member WX3B @ TI5W. I hope everyone had fun in the 
> contest.
>
> I have always operated SO or MS in this contest, and it has always been a 
> rate fest. In M/2 class, there is an upper limit and it can get S-L-O-W. I 
> now know how many QSOs are available - 9147! I don't think we could rustle 
> up a single extra one at the end. It becomes like Sweepstakes on Sunday 
> afternoon - begging for contacts.
>
> Had fun and enjoyed a little warm (but very windy) weather. Ready to go 
> back as it's 36 here now! Only thing that broke was the memory buttons on 
> my K3 that are intermittent for some strange reason. I don't think we even 
> used them in the contest or afterwards. Anyone have experience with this 
> problem?
>
> 73,
>
> Will AA4NC / VP2ME
>
>
> Here's the breakdown from 3830:
>
>
>
>
>                    ARRL DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: VP2ME
> Operator(s): W9RE, N5OT, AA4NC, N4GG, W6DR
> Station: VP2ME
>
> Class: M/2 HP
> QTH: Montserrat
> Operating Time (hrs): 48.0
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:  501    55
>   80: 1105    58
>   40: 1657    58
>   20: 1762    59
>   15: 1913    59
>   10: 2209    59
> -------------------
> Total: 9147   348  Total Score = 9,549,468
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> Another fun contest for our M/2 operating team.  Congratulations to the 
> TI5W
> crew for their great M/2 effort and with only three ops!  Log checking 
> will
> tell the story.
>
> Conditions were excellent and it was a real thrill to break through the
> existing NA and world M/2 records.  We ran the legal limit for VP2M which 
> is
> 1000W, although at times a smaller amp was used at 500W.  10M had sounded 
> poor
> for the preceding week and turned out to be a pleasant surprise.  Saturday 
> 10
> and 15 were bottomless pits and Sunday was nearly as good.  Our problems
> centered on 160 and to a lesser degree 80.  Accurate signals reports 
> indicated
> we were not loud on 160 and our low band receive antenna wound up not 
> working,
> with no time to make it right.  Our missing mult compared to the 
> competition
> was VE4 on 160.  At least twice, the radios somehow went into split and we 
> had
> 5-10 minutes of no callers! If you were calling us then, sorry about
> that!
>
> A BIG thank you to George Briggs K2DM, who founded the station and allowed 
> us
> free run and use of the place, and David and Clover Lea, the proprietors 
> of
> Gingerbread Hill.  Montserrat and Gingerbread Hill are a perfect QTH - 
> friendly
> people, fantastic weather and a view to the ocean that could make you look 
> away
> from your radio.
>
> 73,
> AA4NC, N4GG, N5OT, W6DR, W9RE
>
>
>
>
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