[TVARC] CQWW CW K2PS SOAB HP

[Dennis McKinney]

Hey I didn't work from home at all. My entire effort was from the land. My
home station didn't even get turned on...  Not sure where that would be
from.. If im making contacts in my sleep, I hope my QSO rate goes up...
🤣🤣🤣

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 5:40 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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