ARRL DX Contest, SSB 2002

Call: DL1IAO
Operator(s): DL1IAO
Station: DL0WW

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: JN49FO
Operating Time (hrs): 18.2

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   10: 2432    58
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Total: 2432    58  Total Score = 423,168

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

TS870 + Alpha87
CT v9.23 + DVP on P200

6el Yagi @24m

Reduced plans from SOAB to SB10. YL says, too many straight 48h weekends
are unhealthy. She may be right, at least when it comes to phone.

Plans included not to get up early in the mornings to check for LP openings.
Therefore probably missed a few VE6's.

With crowded bands in mind I settled down early between 28320-330 both days.
Frequency fights were as bad as ever, even asked K4BAI to tell a YT6 to move
down. Sorry for that, I really was upset a few times.

Another "low" was CT (w/ DVP board) continously crashing after about 1300 Q's
during the late great Saturday W6 pileups. On-the-air suggestions ranged from
"Reboot!" to "Get NA!" and were fun listening. I decided to continue paperlogging
and debug the problem when the opening is over. The rate sure drove me close to my
writing limits!

I swapped notes with a few EU's before the band opened on Sunday. DF9ZP was ahead
with abt 100 Q's and 1 Prov. I was still missing VY2SS and started looking for him
with the 2nd VFO. I believe I heard him calling other stations one time, but not
running.

Luckily, my frequency remained quite clear most of the afternoon and I was starting
to hear some pretty weak ones. One time I had 9ZP stopping by while looking for a
better frequency. By that time I had caught up by 50 Q's and at the end our scores
really were head-to-head.

Another great 10m shootout!


73,

Stefan
DL1IAO@contesting.com
http://www.dl1iao.com