[TVARC] K2DM ARRL DX CW 2022 score and writeup

[Jim Worthington]

Great effort, George. It looks like you’re well ahead of the number 2 QRP station, so far. 

Jim AD4J

> On Feb 21, 2022, at 9:08 AM, k2dm at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> 
> Call: K2DM
> Operator(s): K2DM
> Station: K2DM at The Land
>  
> Class: SOAB QRP
> QTH: NFL
> Operating Time (hrs): 38
>  
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:    9     6
>    80:   67    31
>    40:  208    56
>    20:  226    54
>    15:  204    54
>    10:   49    19
> -------------------
> Total:  763   220  Total Score = 502,920
>  
> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
>  
> Comments:
>  
> This is the BIG one for me.  It's the only contest all year that I enter with
> the intention of winning my category.  I have won five times, and I am hopeful
> that this year will prove to be number six.  Win or not, however, this was
> probably the last time for me to put in a full effort.  I was surprised to see
> that I was away from the chair for about 10 hours.  A huge chunk of that time
> was Saturday night when I slept for 6 hours in two sessions.  The low bands were
> just not yielding anything for me at that time.
> The contest began for me much as it had for the past two years.  Decent going on
> 40M with some productivity on 80M overnight.  Things changed in the morning as a
> 20M opening gave way to a 15M opening.  Even 10M produced a few contacts.  At
> the end of the first 24 hours I was a whopping 21 contacts ahead of last year,
> and I couldn't envision where the remaining 200 contacts would come from to
> match last year's total of 643.
> Once again 40M was my stalwart band overnight, and 80M kicked in another 16
> contacts.  I took a rest stop, then added another 38 contacts on 40M around EU
> sunrise.  Sadly, 160M remained a bust.
> After my nap I woke up shortly before my sunrise and had a 66 hour on 20M/15M.
> At 1300Z I matched last year's contact total, 643 contacts.  The remainder of
> the contest was a struggle.  To stay awake.  To fight through the Sunday
> afternoon pileups on any EU station that showed up.  It's fun (no, not really)
> to find a new EA station (or G, F, etc.), to fail to get through on my first or
> second try, and to hear the roll call of the Assisted stations as they descend
> upon the new station.  At this point my choices are to duke it out and try to
> get through or to move on, maybe to return later.  Since there isn't much new on
> Sunday afternoon, I usually choose to jump into the fray.  More times than one
> would expect, I get through.  In the last hour of the contest, I worked a ZL,
> VK, VK6, 3D2 and 4A90.  At some point in this little string of QSOs I went over
> the half-million score mark.  I finished with 763 contacts - 120 more than last
> year.  N1MM+ calculated that 216 of these contacts were answers to my CQs.
> Sweet!
>  
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