[TVARC] ARRL DX CW contest results for K2DM

[George Briggs]

Nice going John. Great addition to your Villages DXCC total.
73,
George K2DM 

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> On Feb 22, 2021, at 5:27 PM, w4gd <w4gd at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> 
> George, congrats to you, Pete and the others whose scores I have seen for this past weekend's ARRL DX CW Contest.
> 
> I am kinda embarrassed with my initial submission as a member of TVARC as seen below.  I fear that I still may have some issues with regard to blowing arc fault circuit breakers in the neighborhood, so I made my effort in the contest as a 100% surgical search and pounce attempt to pick up new counters for my "Villages DXCC".  I picked up 31 new counters for the DXCC.  The other 2 QSOs (33-31) occurred because I just couldn't resist calling an extra JA and UA0 who were calling CQ and had small pileups.
> 
> Conditions were poor here, but my 33 QSOs do include all continents, so guess I can't complain too much!
> 
> 73,
> 
> John
> W4GD
> 
> 
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:           
>    80:           
>    40:           
>    20:  33     31
>    15:           
>    10:           
> -------------------
> Total:  33     31  Total Score = 9,207
> 
> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
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> On Monday, February 22, 2021, 09:56:34 AM EST, k2dm at comcast.net <k2dm at comcast.net> wrote:
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>                     ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2021
> 
>  
> 
> Call: K2DM
> 
> Operator(s): K2DM
> 
> Station: K2DM at The Land
> 
>  
> 
> Class: SOAB QRP
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> QTH: NFL
> 
> Operating Time (hrs): 36
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>  
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> Summary:
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> Band  QSOs  Mults
> 
> -------------------
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>   160:   15     9
> 
>    80:   67    33
> 
>    40:  170    52
> 
>    20:  311    61
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>    15:   70    31
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>    10:   10     8
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> -------------------
> 
> Total:  643   194  Total Score = 373,062
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> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
> 
>  
> 
> Comments:
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>  
> 
> Well, I was down 13 contacts and 56 multipliers from last year's winning total.
> 
> I stayed in the chair more this year and took shorter off times.  Last year when
> 
> I was sleeping I missed an opening to JA in the middle of the night on 20M
> 
> (thanks to K2PS for letting me know).  This year I was rewarded by working 4
> 
> ZLs, 1 VK and FK.  Hey, 6 stations is almost 1 percent of my total!
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>  
> 
> This contest is all about tuning, tuning, tuning, with a bunch of attempts to
> 
> call CQ in between.  Most CQs went unrewarded, but a number yielded a few
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> contacts.  It was especially good when someone came back to me on my first or
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> second CQ.  That told me that I could be heard, so I was hopeful.  Sometimes,
> 
> however, that was the only station that answered, so I moved on to tuning,
> 
> tuning, tuning.
> 
>  
> 
> It continues to amaze me what you can do with 5 watts.  Sure, there are lots of
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> times when loud stations will CQ in your face, but there are other times you get
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> through when you think you don't have a chance.  Like working Europe on 160, or
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> getting through a big pileup on Sunday afternoon.
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>  
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> Speaking of Sunday afternoon - what a challenge to keep at it.  My last seven
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> hours were all under 10 contacts, with one hour netting 3 contacts.  But those
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> 46 contacts could be the difference, so I kept at it.  It didn't hurt that I had
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> the PGA golf tournament on the TV to entertain me.
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>  
> 
> To those stations who stuck with me to pull out that final letter of my callsign
> 
> I offer my sincere thanks.
> 
>  
> 
> 73,
> 
> George K2DM
> 
>  
> 
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