CW

Congrats to K3LR, and team, for another excellent team performance for the win.

Then, I need to thank the team at K1TTT for keeping us motivated. It was always
so neck-and-neck, that I literally lost track of the number of times we swapped
positions on the on-line scoreboard. Sometimes the lead would flip-flop every
time the scoreboard would update! That makes for motivation. I hope we 'pushed' them a bit as well. Second place (first loser) will be
decided by log checking.
 

On the day of the contest, K7SV, came over and helped me sort out the high SWR
issues with my antenna.

I had a full day planned for Saturday that started early, so I didn't operate
too much on Friday night.  When my Saturday obligations were finished about 2250
GMT on Saturday, I got on and had a blast.

Knew I wasn't going to have much time, so for the heck of it, I went
QRP.

Only had one station as for a fill.  And, successfully 'ran' for a while on 20.

73 Steve, NR4M

Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: FM18 VA
Operating Time (hrs): 5:55

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
    CW:  384   124
   SSB:    0     0
-------------------
Total:  384   124  Total Score = 190,464

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

160M antenna was FUBAR for this contest.  
 SWR was over 4:1, so just used my K3S, with tuner and 50 watts output.
To my surprise lots of stations heard me.
One of my PVRC friends sent me a text telling me my signal was waay down. Yea, I guess so!
Worked THREE DE stations within a two minute period!
Thanks for the Q's

Fun contest.

I operated as much as I wanted, but little 40/80, where the points are. I never could do the 'night time shifts', very well.

Didn't spent enough time on working mults, as I really enjoy running stations. The score reflects that.

Personally, I think they should spend energy on getting more operators on, rather than cutting the time. If there were 40% more operators on, we'd be complaining about it being crowded.

Murphy is alive and well in central VA.

Hadn't messed with the station since WPX CW and found that most things were 'hosed up' Only two rotator controllers were working, two of the others were showing a 'counter out of range' error, one P/P had no voltage going to it and the 40 meter Moxon turned easily, but not past 340 degrees to the west!

"Mr Murphy" checked in at this QTH this weekend. Had equipment failures that really could not have been predicted. We were able to do 'work arounds', so all was not lost.

Too many stations with nasty key clicks.

Thanks for all the Q's

Thanks to K3LR and K1LZ, for giving us someone to 'chase'. It makes you perform better. 'Would-a, could-a, should-a' is a well known phrase here.
As many have already stated, you really couldn't ask for better conditions. Obviously, the high bands were the highlight of the weekend and it shows in everyone's scores.
Have never worked as many JA's as this weekend; they seemed to be everywhere. This was our highest QSO total EVER! And, I was very pleased that we kept up with the multipliers.

                    European Union DX Contest - 2024
 
Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M
 
Class: SOABCW HP
QTH: FM18ch  VA
Operating Time (hrs): 10:28
 
Summary:
  Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  EU Regions
-------------------------------------------
   160:    0     0         0           0
    80:   39     0        19          24
    40:  162     0        38          77
    20:  138     0        40          72
    15:  222     0        39          91