[TVARC] ARRL 10 K2PS SO Mixed LP

[George Briggs]

WOW!

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> On Dec 14, 2020, at 1:48 PM, w3us at casa-aloha.net wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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>> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
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