[TVARC] ARRL 10 K2PS SO Mixed LP

[K2PS Pete Stafford]

It sure is nice to have 10 meters open wide again, and propagation for the
next few years should make it even better.  Monitoring FT8 the day before
did seem to be a good guide for band openings and closes to various areas of
the world.

I enjoyed watching the Contest Online Scoreboard (contestonlinescore.com)
during the weekend to see who else is participating (a few TVARCers were not
listed - if you'd like some help getting N1MM to include you, let me know).
But the main attraction was the competitive nature of the nearly real-time
counts of QSOs and Mults.  The big guns, George and Rusty, competed in
different categories from each other and from me, but watching the totals
climb provided an incentive to press on harder.
 
I did put up my 4-element 10 meter yagi on a 30-foot pushup mast atop my old
rotator, and had a chance to be a little like a real station once again.
Photo attached.

So I participated, as usual, in the Mixed Low Power Unassisted class.  This
year it would seem that the typical Florida advantage didn't pan out,
although conditions were pretty good from here.  Operating Mixed means
switching back and forth between CW and SSB.  The emphasis has to be CW,
since it counts twice what SSB contacts do.  As it turns out, I stayed too
long on CW Saturday morning during the EU opening, and so had to scramble
for those mults on Sunday.  Also, somehow I missed whatever SSB openings
there were to New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, embarrassingly
missing out on NY, NJ, PA, and lots of other east coast states.  Ended up
with 59 states/provinces/Mex states on CW, 42 on SSB.  For DXCC, 48 CW and
43 SSB. 

At times we had a pipeline to various states.  Here are those most-worked:
MN	56
AZ	55
CA	51
CO	47
FL	41
These five states amounted to roughly 42% of all my non-DX QSOs.

Honorable mention goes to ND with 11 Qs from a sparsely populated state
which is normally hard to work.

Thanks to a nice list of TVARCers who called in: K3ZGA, K2DM, W3US, AD4K,
W4GD, N8RW, ND4G, K3WT, N4FP, N0SMX, KM4PIH, K4LES, and ND8L.

The antenna came down on Monday <sigh>, so back to the inverted vees.  But
at least I could crank up the amp!

73, Pete, K2PS



                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2022

Call: K2PS
Operator(s): K2PS
Station: K2PS

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 25

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   CW:  587   107
  SSB:  308    85
-------------------
Total:  895   192  Total Score = 569,088

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

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