[TVARC] ARRL 10 K2PS SO Mixed LP

[Ed Deichler]

Great score, Pete; as always.  I managed 402 Qs in 11 hours, all CW since
my hearing stinks for SSB.  I also struck out on MO & WV plus WY for all
the states.  I was surprised to work all but VO1, VY1 and VE8. I finally
decided to sit and run for almost an hour Sunday for a rate of 91/hour.

If we have another good year in 2025 that would be great.

73 de TE

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that was a great weekend!  CW is worth twice the points of SSB
> contacts,
> and in most years when CW gets slow, a move to SSB makes sense.  Well, this
> time CW never really slowed, so had to force myself to go to SSB if just to
> make sure I got the multipliers I needed.  The rates on both modes peaked
> at
> over 200/hr, but it's of course quicker to make Qs on SSB.  Had to keep
> checking my rate on CW: could I double that rate on SSB?
>
> It's easy to forget that 10 meters isn't always like this.  ARRL has posted
> scores for this contest back through 2018.  For that period, my low QSO
> count was 267 (2019), and this year was the high (1536).  Maybe we have one
> more year of great condx?
>
> Kept checking contestonlinescores.com during the contest, both to see how
> our club members were doing, and also, in a separate window, where I stood
> in my category (LP Mixed).  I saw, early on, that unless Jeff, N8II, was
> going to get hit by a truck, I had no chance.  Now, I've met Jeff, a nice
> fellow, with a big antenna farm up there in WV, and certainly didn't wish
> him harm.  But he jumped out to a big lead and never looked back.  Beat me
> by 250 Qs.  There was also 9J2FI (whom I never heard), who was also putting
> up a nice score.  Ultimately, I fell exactly one CW QSO short of eclipsing
> him.  Hoping that he made more copying errors than I did!
>
> BTW, never heard WV and MO, either mode.  Very weird.
>
> One guy, K9BBN, answered me, and after our quick QSO, came back with,
> "Enjoy
> the Villages!"  I guess I thanked him, but no time to chat.  Does anyone
> know him?  How did he know?  But that was fun.
>
> I don't do SSB much.  Actually, pretty much twice a year - this one, and
> the
> June VHF.  You don't want to leave any gaps in your transmission (it slows
> things down), and I found myself straining to get out the whole exchange
> sometimes, especially if he had a long callsign and phonetics.  Forced
> myself to inhale just prior to it, so I could get it in in one.  Wondering
> if, as we age, maybe our lung capacity decreases?  Never noticed this
> before.
>
> Worked W3US and K3WT both modes, and also K2DM (my very first QSO), K2TE,
> and WB2ART.  Never heard W4GD.  I know Rusty, George, and Tom all put in
> about half the time I did, nice scores guys!  Were there any others out
> there?  Maybe some newly minted Techs?
>
> Thanks much to Tom, K3WT, for help in taking down the yagi.  He's been
> under
> the weather lately or it would have been a round trip.  He certainly makes
> it much easier (and I don't need to engage the XYL, always a good thing)!
>
> Hope to see you all at the Holiday Party.
>
> 73, Pete, K2PS
>
>                     ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2024
>
> Call: K2PS
> Operator(s): K2PS
> Station: K2PS
>
> Class: SO Mixed LP
> QTH: FL
> Operating Time (hrs): 25
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>    CW: 1020   132
>   SSB:  516    94
> -------------------
> Total: 1536   226  Total Score = 1,155,312
>
> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
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