[TVARC] ARRL 10 K2PS SO Mixed LP

[w3us at casa-aloha.net]

Well done Pete.  Approaching 1K QSOs.  What an amazing accomplishment, and I really love your 4-el yagi.

As long as we are doing show & tell, here’s a photo of my MFJ Big Ear 10M dipole.  
Not exactly stealthy, but by 1800 Sunday it had all but disappeared, not to be seen again til next year.

Rusty - W3US



> On Dec 14, 2020, at 08:28, K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Comments:
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> 
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