[TVARC] K2PS ARRL 10M Contest

[Frank M]

Good job Pete. Would love to have participated but family came first. Back in the 50’s and 60’s, during the best peak ever, I was running 50W AM into an indoor 3 element beam. Those were the days!!!!!

Frank KA1AF 

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> On Dec 15, 2019, at 7:58 PM, K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ten meters can be sooo good…and as we saw this weekend, sooo bad.  The propagation gods were barely with us this year.  Two decent openings, one on Saturday morning at 9A and the other Sunday just before noon.  And of course it was going strong during the 1P NFL games.  I guess the good news (?) then was that the opening (primarily to Texas) wasn’t good enough to make me take complete focus off of the Eagles as they beat the Redskins.
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> So most of the time it was a real slog.  Last year I made 553 QSOs; this year just about half of that.  But I guess the good news is that it probably can’t get worse.  Hopefully we’re at the sunspot bottom right now.  And the upswing tends to occur more quickly than the way down.
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> For the first time used the amp to get the allowed 150W max for LP.  Required about 8W out from the IC-7610.  And the antenna comes down in the next couple of days, to be stored away until next year.
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> Thanks to N0SMX and N4FP (CW and SSB), WB2ART, K3ZGA (of course), K1CTR on CW, and then NP2B/4 and WU3Z/M (SSB only).  Hope I didn’t miss anyone.
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> 73, Pete, K2PS
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>                     ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2019
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> Call: K2PS
> Operator(s): K2PS
> Station: K2PS
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> Class: SO Mixed LP
> QTH: NFL
> Operating Time (hrs): 13
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> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
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>    CW:  217    32
>   SSB:   55    15
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> Total:  272    47  Total Score = 45,966
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> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
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