[TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today

Sat Dec 12 08:14:41 EST 2020

Great going, Pete! Sounds like you had a super time! 

73
Jim
AL7BA 

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On Dec 12, 2020, 06:39, at 06:39, K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sadly (for you), no.  Check out the scores on contestonlinescore.com. 
>Incredible.  But that would have been a great goof.  I’m just not that
>devious J.   It will probably be lousy the rest of the weekend, but who
>knows?
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>73, Pete, K2PS
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>From: George Briggs [mailto:k2dm at comcast.net] 
>Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 6:32 AM
>To: K2PS Pete Stafford; tvarc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: RE: [TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today
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>You are making that up!
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>From: K2PS Pete Stafford <mailto:psk2ps at gmail.com> 
>Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 6:00 AM
>To: 'George Briggs' <mailto:k2dm at comcast.net> ; tvarc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: RE: [TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today
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>Poor George.  I had felt guilty causing him to drive out to The Land
>with promises of the band being open until 10 or 11p, and nothing much
>was going on, at least at first.  At about 815p last night, moments
>after he pulled the plug and headed back home, the propagation gods
>decided to light things up.  After having a similar experience for the
>initial hour or so – starting out with only FL stations (thanks TVARC
>guys who called in), then a couple of weak MN and IA stations worked,
>some VE3s, and then followed by a small handful of CA stations, and
>even a very weak Australian – all of a sudden signals were roaring in
>from New England, OH, IL, and the rest of the Midwest.  Had the rate
>meter between 150-200/hour for much of that time.  It was a blast! 
>Finally decided to call it quits at about midnight since I had run out
>of gas, even though there were still some workable stations out there. 
>By then my QSO total sat at 400, mostly CW.  (Had to switch to SSB for
>a little while to be sure and pick up all those state multipliers, and
>the rate there was incredible too.)  I’ve never had a 10M Contest
>Friday night go anything like this one.  
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>I noticed that Rusty, W3US, is sitting at 278 contacts.  Wayta go!
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>Not sure what today will be like, but hopeful to work some Europeans
>around 9A, and SA later on.  
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>Hope George can get his timing right!
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>73, Pete, K2PS
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>From: George Briggs [mailto:k2dm at comcast.net] 
>Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 9:29 PM
>To: K2PS Pete Stafford; tvarc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: RE: [TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today
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>I can see why Pete likes this contest.  I decided to play around in it
>a little, starting with an hour operating from The Land this evening. 
>I started at 7PM, as the contest started.  All I did was CQ for an
>hour.  During that time I worked a handful of friends from TVARC,
>including Ken, Russ, Rusty, Doug and Pete.  That in and of itself was
>fun.  But I was amazed at the vagaries of propagation during the hour. 
>I worked 39 stations in 9 states/provinces.  I worked FL (a lot), CA ,
>NE, KS, SD, MO, NY, and VE3.  I would CQ without answers for a couple
>of minutes, then a station from NE would call.  Then a minute later a
>station from VE3.  Then CA, etc.  But never a run of more than two
>stations from the same area at a time.  And a couple of times I went a
>full 5 minutes CQing without an answer.  Crazy.  I may go back and try
>some more tomorrow morning.
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>GL Pete!
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>73,
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>George K2DM
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>From: K2PS Pete Stafford <mailto:psk2ps at gmail.com> 
>Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:39 PM
>To: tvarc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today
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>My fave contest begins tonight at 7P and runs for 48 hours.  Generally
>speaking, 10 meters is open during the daylight hours, and closed at
>night.  However, my experience has been that Friday night is usually
>productive until 10 or 11P.  Remember, everyone can work everyone, so
>most of your contacts will be stateside.  The ARRL 10M Contest is
>probably not going to have the kinds of spectacular QSO totals that
>we’ll see in a couple of years as solar flux increases, but it still
>has a good variety of propagation to offer.  And we probably won’t be
>able to work the world on a window screen antenna, but a good deal of
>DX should be workable.  Likely to see a small EU opening each morning
>at maybe 9A or so, and South American stations will certainly be coming
>in during the afternoon hours.  Also, we should have a good chance to
>work into Australia/New Zealand later in the afternoon.
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>The contest allows us to work one another on both CW and SSB (no
>digital), and the exchange for us would be 59(9) FL.  So look for
>states and provinces, and also Mexican states.  And for DX, they’ll
>give a serial number.
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>I’ll be on mostly CW (since it’s twice the points), and moving to SSB
>when things get slow.  (If you want to enter the contest, you can be
>all CW, or all SSB, or Mixed.)  Running only 150W to stay in the LP
>category, but I’ve put up my 4 element 10M yagi, so hopeful to do well.
> Please look for me and give me a call!
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>73, Pete, K2PS
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