February 19, 2024

ARRL DX CW 2024, 375 Q’s

Started just as a casual entry but it was fun so I kept going. I mostly searched for new multipliers to get my score up. On Thursday I received the parts I was waiting for to hook up my CW skimmer full time (I’ll be doing a write up on this soon). Since this contest doesn’t give points for US/Canada contacts the skimmer made it easy to skip over those, increasing how fast I could find new stations. I was just under 8 hours so that’s 47 QSO/hour which is pretty good for search and pounce. Sometimes I’d just catch the last part of the call and respond then verify the skimmer after the Q, only had one dupe cause of this (not included in the 375). Interestingly I worked the DXpedition 8R7X on 3 bands with no trouble, during the week they had massive pileups going. I had 39 contacts on 80m and 58 on 10m so I’m hoping I got some new ones for DXCC there. When I submitted I found they’ve added a Limited Antennas overlay, which I qualify for, looking forward to seeing how I did in that category.

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