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