[TVARC] CQWW CW K2PS SOAB HP

[George Briggs]

That’s amazing Pete. All with that skinny little 40M dipole at 30 feet. Imagine, when 10M opens you could make 1million points!
The K2DM crew had a distinct advantage in antennas. Next time perhaps we can add YOUR skill to the team.
73,
George K2DM 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 30, 2020, at 5:41 PM, K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Really put in an effort with this one.  Almost like old times in terms of
> BIC (butt-in-chair).  Put in 32 out of the 48 hours, and aside from a few
> naps and the Penn State - Michigan game (we won, finally!), it was mostly
> productive time spent.  Much easier to sit there for long hours when it's
> possible to run stations or to sweep up and down the bands and find lots of
> stuff to work.  Recalling back around 30 years as C6A/K2PS from the Bahamas
> and putting in 42 hours.  But that's something for younger guys!
> 
> Anyway, having 15 meters wide open makes a huge difference.  And 10 meters
> was worth checking now and then too.  Barely open to Europe or it could have
> been even better.  Thanks to K2DM's crew for the double multiplier on 10
> meters!  I even was able to push through a few countries on 80 meters, even
> though the antenna is a 40 meter inverted vee.  The Elecraft tuner made the
> 10+ SWR look like about 1.5.  Of course my output power was also about 10%
> of the 500W I put into it.
> 
> Lots of good countries worked, including 3D2 Fiji, 5T (on 80!) Mauritania,
> 5Z Kenya, 7Q Malawi, A6 UAE, D4 Cape Verde.  Of course, the ones that got
> away hurt (heard but couldn't work): 8Q Maldives, A4 Oman, YB Indonesia, ZD7
> St Helena, CN Morocco are some of the ones I recall.  The final score showed
> that 1 Mult = 2.8 Q's, so having a good QSO rate meant that I could work
> three stations and be ahead of the time it might take to grab that new
> country/zone, assuming he even heard me.
> 
> It was fun watching the contestonlinescore.com scoreboard, and it became
> clear early on that the K2DM station was leaving me in the dust.  My final
> goal was getting at least half the number of QSOs as them, and I barely
> managed that.  Congrats to the team!
> 
> Did also hear K2TE in there, and worked W3GYM.  Saw that Chuck, K9IA, Rich
> ND4G, and N0SMX (from home) also were on working some new TVARC DXCC
> counters.
> 
> Now on to the crème de la crème for me, the ARRL 10 Meter Contest in two
> weeks.  Pray for sunspots.
> 
> 73, Pete, K2PS
> 
>                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2020
> 
> Call: K2PS
> Operator(s): K2PS
> Station: K2PS
> 
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: FL
> Operating Time (hrs): 32
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>  160:                    
>   80:   25    12       17
>   40:  310    22       74
>   20:  228    26       70
>   15:  336    20       65
>   10:   48    13       22
> ------------------------------
> Total:  947    93      248  Total Score = 898,876
> 
> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
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