[LCC] ARRL 10 AA5AU SO Mixed Unlimited HP

[Don AA5AU]

 Yes - 394 on ten meters and I'm currently in the top ten Claimed Scores for Single Op Mixed Unlimited HP which is even more surprising considering how little time I actually operated.
I didn't operate at all Friday night. I monitored 10-meter spots on the cluster Saturday morning. When I started seeing spots on ten meters, I went there and was surprised to see signals across the CW band. I called CQ and immediately got spotted by a skimmer and the band was open to MI, OH, IN, and IL with a few NC and VA thrown in. After working about 180 stations, I decided to try SSB. I didn't get as many there and the band (must of been E-skip) moved to the west and I started working stations in places like TX, IA, SD, UT and then AZ, NM, and CA, so I worked a few of them on SSB and moved back to CW. Then South America started coming in but there weren't as many as I had hoped for.No east coast.
My goal, of course, is to work as many grids for the Chase. That's why I went mixed. But I needed the east coast. Sunday morning I was watching 10-meter spots again and just past sunrise, I started seeing spots. So I went to ten meters and the band was open to the east coast! I worked about a hundred stations and then went to SSB and worked a few more but by then the band had gone away. 
I went back to CW and there was a tremendous opening to Florida. I worked about 20 or 30 of them but that was it. I went to SSB and picked up the FL mult and worked one station in TX. That was at about 10 AM when I went to do other things. I kept the radio on ten and kept checking from time to time but nothing really happened. I worked a few AZ stations in the afternoon to end the contest.
Don AA5AU
    On Monday, December 10, 2018, 6:48:11 AM CST, Marsh KA5M <marsh at ka5m.net> wrote:  
 
 You made 394 Qs on 10M?! Outstanding!

Congrats Don.

Marsh


-----Original Message-----
From: LCC <lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org> On Behalf Of Don Hill AA5AU
Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2018 6:47 PM
To: 'LCC' <lcc at louisianacontestclub.org>
Subject: [LCC] ARRL 10 AA5AU SO Mixed Unlimited HP

                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: AA5AU
Operator(s): AA5AU
Station: AA5AU

Class: SO Mixed Unlimited HP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  CW:  285    48
  SSB:  109    25
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Total:  394    73  Total Score = 99,134

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments:

I certainly didn't expect to make this many contacts. Some nice openings on
Saturday and again on Sunday morning, then the band said "goodnight".

Don AA5AU



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