[RRDXA] DL3YM ARRL-DX-CW SOAB LP

[RRDXA Claimed Score Submission]

Claimed score submission: ARRL-DX-CW 2009

Call: DL3YM
Operator(s): DL3YM
Mode: CW
Category: SOAB
Active hours: 18.5
Power: LP
Assisted: no
Club:Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Summary: 

 Band	   QSOs	    States/Provinces      

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  10m:	      0       0 
  15m:	     25      13 
  20m:	    203      41 
  40m:	    132      29 
  80m:	     55      19 
 160m:	     11       8 
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 Total:	    426     110 
 
 Claimed Score:  140.250 


Comments: 
With the whole family recovering from a bad flu any serious attempt was ruled out this year. Used an 80 m inverted L with 160m zig zag extension to the horizontal leg on 160, 80, 20 and 15 plus a wire vertical on 40 running low power from my downtown home QTH. If I am in your log you can hear well, hi.
Remarkable opening on 160 on Sunday morning: starting exactly 10 minutes before the sun came up, a number of  really big sigs emerged from the noise. Almost fell out of the chair when I worked 8 mults in the next 20 minutes with most coming back on the first call.
80 was pretty good, too, yet hard to work further west. Many thanks to the 80m OP @ NR5M for his persistence and for pulling me out of the mud.
40 and 20 produced amazing signal levels and were open much longer than expected.
15 yielded an intense opening on Sunday afternoon with signals going from S9 to zero and back again within minutes. Hard to get through with no gain antennas when the EU competition was hungry for mults ...
Bottom line: you can have a lot of fun even with a very modest setup - setting your goals right is the key!



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