[TVARC] ARRL 10 K2PS SO Mixed LP

[K2PS Pete Stafford]

As I wrote early Saturday morning, that Friday night opening was one for the
record books.  And Saturday proved to be pretty good as well.  After 400 Qs
Friday, I added another 411 Saturday, mostly during the morning hours.
Sunday was pretty awful though - just 107 for the entire day, but that's 10
meters. We should be thankful for whatever good prop we get.  Next year
promises to be even better as we climb the sunspot cycle.

Monitored contestonlinescore.com to see how I was doing relative to other
stations in my LP Mixed (CW+SSB) class, and had a hard fought battle for
first place with WQ5L in Mississippi (although there may be other big scores
that I don't yet know about).  He got off to a better start, but sometime
Saturday I caught up and briefly pulled ahead but it didn't last.
Unfortunately, he ended up with 32 more QSOs, but importantly 20 more mults.
Looks like he spent more time on SSB and picked up those mults there, even
though SSB contacts are worth only half those on CW.  It's a tricky balance.
I checked him out on QRZ.com, and I've attached photos of his antennas and
mine.  So I feel a little better :).

Never did work any Europeans, and only heard one Hungarian station.  But did
pick up VK Australia, V5 Namibia, and D4 Cape Verde.

Thanks to all the TVARCers who got me started off Friday night when the only
stations heard were Floridians.  Worked  
W3US, W3MY, WB2ART, K1CTR, K3ZGA, K2DM, NP2B/4, ND4G, AD4K, K4CYA, N0SMX,
N4FP, N4GL.  Did I miss anyone?

W3US was really loud here.  And apparently was loud elsewhere too!  That
temporary dipole did really well.  Nice going, Rusty.

73, Pete, K2PS

                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2020

Call: K2PS
Operator(s): K2PS
Station: K2PS

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 21

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   CW:  622    64
  SSB:  296    45
-------------------
Total:  918   109  Total Score = 335,720

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

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