I wasn’t sure how much time I wanted to spend on this one, but conditions turned out to be pretty good. And 10 meters was wide open too, so it kept my interest. But things didn’t start out so well – just before the contest I decided I needed to straighten out one of the legs to my 40m inverted vee which seemed to be caught up in a pretty dense Sylvester palm. So I got out the ladder and started trimming and uh oh! Yeah, I cut the wire too! Not happy. But I got it fixed and managed to get everything back up and running OK in time.
40 was hopping Friday night, but had little success using the 40m antenna on 80. But after a few hours of sleep, woke up to catch an early 20m opening to Europe at around 5a. Switched to 15 at around 7a local, and had a great run there, working 100 stations in about 90 minutes starting at 730a. Really nice to have 10 open too, so had to keep deciding where to be for the best QSO rate. Used to be so easy – 20 was it during the daytime – but not now. And it figures to get even better.
Worked some nice DX – 3B8 and 3B9 on 3 bands, American Samoa, Guam, Norfolk Island, Benin, Namibia, Reunion. Saw Tom, K3WT doing really well, and Rusty too in the time he was active, according to the Contest Online scoreboard.
Looking forward to the ARRL 10M Contest in two weeks when all the TVARCers will be able to work each other on both CW and SSB.
73, Pete, K2PS
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: K2PS
Operator(s): K2PS
Station: K2PS
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80: 32 10 26
40: 242 20 70
20: 253 23 66
15: 362 23 78
10: 181 22 65
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Total: 1070 98 305 Total Score = 1,227,135
Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
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