[TVARC] CQWW CW K2PS

[K2PS Pete Stafford]

Wow!  It sure has been a long, long time since 10 meters was sooo good.  It
did help that I had my yagi up for the weekend.  

 

I can't recall a time when I could call CQ from sunrise (about 7A) to a bit
after noon and work 'the Europeans at a rate of at least one a minute, and
that was Saturday AND Sunday.  Of course, the rates did drop the second day,
but not by all that much (from about 104/hr to 80/hr overall).  After the
EUs dried up (because it was nighttime there), I swung the beam (just love
being able to say that) to the south and worked the Caribbean, Brazil,
Argentina, etc.  But there aren't all that many of them, and I've never had
much success calling CQ in that direction.  It was late in the day, say
around 5P, that the Japanese began to filter through.  There are a lot of
those, but the path is longer than that for Europe, and so I couldn't work
all that many.  However, I was able to call CQ and get them and a few
Aussies to answer in spurts.

 

Picked up 31 zones (missed Zone 37 from ZD7BG, who was loud enough, but who
had an unruly pileup that I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time working
through, and Zone 24 from China - heard a couple but they couldn't hear me).
Working DXCC in a weekend was awesome!  Worked 4W8X in Timor, 3B8M in
Mauritius, 9M6NA in East Malaysia, FW5N in Wallis & Futuna, and ZL7IO in
Chatham Islands to name a few.

 

Sadly, I did take the antenna down today, but left it outside to be ready
for the ARRL 10M Contest in two weeks.  That should be even more crazy, if
the conditions hold up, what with all the stateside multipliers that will be
available to work.

 

73, Pete

 

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023

 

Call: K2PS

Operator(s): K2PS

Station: K2PS

 

Class: SOSB10 HP

QTH: FL

Operating Time (hrs): 24

 

Summary:

Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries

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  160:                    

   80:                    

   40:                    

   20:                    

   15:                    

   10: 1196    31      110

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Total: 1196    31      110  Total Score = 480,246

 

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

 

 

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