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CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

I received a large white envelope in the mail this afternoon and when my wife returned to the truck, she said, "You got more wallpaper." Seems she is beginning to identify these. She even likes to hold it up to the light and peek through the envelope to see what contest and what my score was. I read the results recently in CQ Magazine so I knew this was coming and I'm actually expecting two more yet from other contests.

I have not looked to see what I busted but it's obvious from what I submitted, my score dropped a bit. I don't remember too much about this contest off of the top of my head but I remember 20 meters was pretty darn good. I poked through my emails and saved my 3830 post which I will post below. That gave the summary of the contest immediately afterward. I have come to enjoy reading the posts on 3830, reading about propagation and the contest from hams all over the globe. Due to the small amount of hams who enter contests here in Alaska, my chances are normally pretty good of getting some kind of wallpaper. At least I think it's better here than if I was operating in the lower 48. My station is small so I am thankful for any advantage I can get. But as I have said before, I'm not in it to win it (too small to even think about it) I'm in it to have fun!  And yes, I remember this contest as being fun! Good thing is, the wallpaper I have been able to accumulate has helped insulate my igloo here in Alaska.

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CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: KL8DX

Operator(s): KL8DX

Station: KL8DX

Class: SOSB20 HP

QTH: Alaska

Operating Time (hrs): 29.49

Summary:

Band  QSOs

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  80:   

  40:   

  20: 1059

  15:   

  10:   

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Total: 1059  Prefixes = 537  Total Score = 1,316,187

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

That just happened! Seriously? A contest weekend with propagation?

And was it!!!

It's obvious this is the biggest RTTY contest of the year. Less than

standing room only on 20 meters. I saw RTTY signals at times from 14.058

to 14.140, solid!

Extremely fun to have two great evening/morning openings into Europe.

I could not get a run going but it seemed that most could hear me when

I called. Some AU on signals but most of the time there was no problem

with decoding any of them.

I decided a single band effort at the beginning. With the band

conditions, I should have tried all band but I stuck to my original plan.

I am not disappointed at all, as I have topped my all time high score and

also total number of QSO's. A small station effort and my operational

times made the best of the great propagation.

Gotta sort through my notes and I will do a detailed overview on my blog

site. My butt needs to divorce my chair and I need to work on getting the

blood flow back into my legs. So many great highlights, so many familiar

callsigns, and only a few low lights. I think Alaska was well represented

this weekend as I was lucky enough to work several of my long distant

neighbors.

Thanks for each and every QSO. Temperatures this morning were -30F and

I believe we will be colder than that tonight. It was warm and cozy in

the shack and extremely easy to stay focused on chasing multipliers and

calling CQ for hours at a time. I can't believe how fast 30 hours went.

Rig: Icom 756PRO

Antenna: Mosley TA-34-XL @ 43 feet

Amp: Ameritron AL-1500 @ 500 watts

Software: N1MM Logger V9.9.6

73,

Phil KL8DX

Denali National Park, AK