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ARRL 10m contest December 2024

CW SO HP Flex6500 + ACOM1000 3ele Steppir.

Aiming for 1000 CW, 
But 923 QSO at band close is my best result ever SO 10m CW.
Fun to see so many CW contesters thanks to all.
In JO33 the band closes at 18UTC the 28MHz time window is short these day's.
Sunday morning to east bit hard going signals with extreme backscatter echo.
Most points came from USA later in afternoon. 
As expected, 10m propagation was a bit lower then in the November CQWW 
I had 566 QSO 10m SO CW  low power.
VE7 KH6 this time not heard. 
It could be one of the last 10M contests with high SFI  170 so you had to be there...
XE nice rare multipliers few heard but too hard to break the USA pile.

result Contest: ARRL10M

Band     QSOs     Pts  S-P  Cty  Pt/Q
Total     923    3692   58   92   4,0
Score: 553.800
1 Mult = 6,2 Q's

Comments

PE4BAS, Bas said…
Moi Jaap, mooie DX gemaakt op 10 zie ik. Je zal ook wel een top score hebben. Was het low power of high power? Bij mij sloot de band pas om 18:30 UTC. Signalen waren toen al wel een uurtje vrij zwak maar er was nog steeds wat te werken op CW. 73, Bas

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