[TVARC] CQWPX Contest results - K2DM

[Daniel McKinney]

Great job George!!!!

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 9:25 PM George Briggs <k2dm at att.net> wrote:

> I like to set goals for these contests in order to see just how my station
> performs.
> For this weekend's prefix contest I set a goal of 500 QSOs.  I used my
> Elecraft KPA500
> amplifier running around 400-450W, and my newly constructed flagpole
> antenna.
> Conditions were generally horrible with weak signals and considerable QSB
> (fading up and
> down).  Many times a station would be 579 when they called me, and they
> would drop below
> the noise level when it was time for them to send their serial number to
> me.  Many requests
> were made for repeats on both sides.  But we all knew it, so we all hung
> in there until the
> exchange was completed.
>
> I spent a lot of time CQing as opposed to searching and pouncing.  Rates
> were low either way,
> but it was frustrating typing in a callsign and having N1MM tell me that I
> had already worked that
> station.  I took a number of breaks, slept both nights, went out to
> friends' Saturday evening, watched
> TV, but I managed to reach my goal of 500 contacts around 4:00 Sunday
> afternoon.  During the
> contest I worked ND4G and K3ZGA and I heard K2TE.  If I missed any other
> TVARCers, I apologize.
>
> Scoring in this contest is a bit complex.  There are premiums for QSOs on
> the low bands versus the
> high bands, and QSOs with other continents count more than with one's own
> continent.  QSOs with
> your own country count the least.
>
> Here are my totals:
>
> 40M    140 QSOs (73 US), 93 Prefixes
> 20M    300 QSOs (167 US), 184 Prefixes
> 15M    77 QSOs (55 US), 23 Prefixes
> 10M    8 QSOs (6 US), 0 Prefixes
>
> Total    525 QSOs (301 US), 300 prefixes
>
> Final score:  329,100
>
> The rig worked great.  The amplifier worked great.  The flagpole/remote
> tuner needs a little, well, tuning,
> and the operator could have spent more time in the chair operating.  But
> all in all it was fun, and I was
> quite pleased at the outcome.
>
> 73,
> George K2DM
>
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