[TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today

Sat Dec 12 08:18:07 EST 2020

Fire up the qrp rig Jim. Let's see if it works..   OH is almost DX on 10m
lately... 🤪🤪

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 8:16 AM Jim <jshaw32163 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great going, Pete! Sounds like you had a super time!
>
> 73
> Jim
> AL7BA
>
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> On Dec 12, 2020, 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 73, Pete, K2PS
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> You are making that up!
>>
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>> *From: *K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com>
>> *Sent: *Saturday, December 12, 2020 6:00 AM
>> *To: *'George Briggs' <k2dm at comcast.net>; tvarc at mailman.qth.net
>> *Subject: *RE: [TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today
>>
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>> 73, Pete, K2PS
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> GL Pete!
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> George K2DM
>>
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>> *From: *K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com>
>> *Sent: *Friday, December 11, 2020 12:39 PM
>> *To: *tvarc at mailman.qth.net
>> *Subject: *[TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>> 73, Pete, K2PS
>>
>>
>>
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