[LCC] Fw: ARRLDX CW W5RU(@KN5O) M/2 HP

[Marshall Stewart]

Congratulations on a great effort and score!

73,
Marsh, KA5M

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[mailto:lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org] On Behalf Of Ted Saba
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 6:03 PM
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Subject: [LCC] Fw: ARRLDX CW W5RU(@KN5O) M/2 HP

Folks:

Here is our initial claimed score for this past weekend.  Hope all of you 
are
doing well..

73,
Ted
for W5RU

Subject: ARRLDX CW W5RU(@KN5O) M/2 HP


>                    ARRL DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: W5RU
> Operator(s): KN5O K1DW W5RY W5XU
> Station: KN5O
>
> Class: M/2 HP
> QTH: Covington, LA
> Operating Time (hrs): 41
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:   59    46
>   80:  256    82
>   40:  574   106
>   20:  713   101
>   15:  677   109
>   10:  112    48
> -------------------
> Total: 2391   492  Total Score = 3,527,640
>
> Club: Louisiana Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> We planned to have sufficient staffing to do a Multi-2 effort.  Once into 
> the
> contest, we were not able to adequately man both positions.  So we were
> somewheres between Multi-single and Multi-2, plus only operated for 41 
> hours
> due to other late-Sunday afternoon committments.
>
> Our score is better than last year, only because of the increased number 
> of
> multipliers.  But our QSO count didn't increase very much over last year, 
> even
> with the second transmitter.  Band conditions seemed better, so guess it 
> can be
> chaulked up to poorer performance on our part.
>
> It was good to see 10M come to life Saturday.  It was open to EU early in 
> the
> day and by late afternoon, into OC.  Was hoping for a similar or better
> performance on Sunday, but didn't happen.  Pretty much the same old TEP 
> and
> Caribbean paths, openning to our area about midday Sunday.  160M and 80M 
> were
> good Friday night, not so much on Saturday night.  QRN was worse on 
> Saturday
> evening.  Conditions on 40M/20M/15M were about typical for us.
>
> Not sure how much of an effort we will put forth on the Phone weekend.  If

> we
> couldn't get staffing for CW, its highly unlikely we will get adequate
> volunteers for phone.  Defintely a multi-single effort at best or even a
> single-band, single-op effort coming up - maybe 15M or even 10M (if 10M 
> looks
> promising).
>
> Congrats to all the winners...
>
> 73,
> Ted KN5O
>
> for the W5RU Team
>
>
> Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: 
> http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
>
> 


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