Nice Job, Pete. Sorry I didn’t get to see you down at The Land. But it was fun working the contest with some great partners. I also put a few hours in from my home station. I didn’t do as well as you, but that’s the difference between running and S&P, plus only 100 watts and a wire! Fun stuff.

73, Bob

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From: K2PS Pete Stafford
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 8:20 PM
To: TVARC
Subject: [TVARC] CQWW CW K2PS SO(A)AB HP

I hadn't planned to put in much of an effort this year, but antenna problems curtailed even that.  My 40M inverted vee suddenly showed an SWR of over 4.0.  My marvelous Elecraft Antenna Tuner managed to get that to about 1.4, but we all know that most of the 500W didn't go anywhere useful.  So I was stuck mostly on 20M with my other antenna.

Also spent a few hours at K2DM, mostly running Europe on 15 on Sunday.  So nice to operate at a real station for a change.

Although I generally operate as unassisted, in the last few hours I hopped on 20 and decided to change my category and enable the ability to grab spots off the cluster.  In the last half hour on Sunday, I just tried to pick off multipliers from the N1MM window that can be set to only show those spotted stations which count as new countries or new zones.  Worked some great stuff in the last half hour:

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: K2PS

Operator(s): K2PS

Station: K2PS

Class: SO(A)AB HP

QTH: FL

Operating Time (hrs): 4

Summary:

Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries

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  160:                   

   80:                   

   40:   15     8       12

   20:  115    24       51

   15:   16     9       13

   10:    3     3        3

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Total:  149    44       79  Total Score = 41,205

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

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