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DAVE HAD AT HIS SELECTION SEVEN DIFFERENT 7 ELEMENT BEAMS INCLUDING A
ROTATING 4 STACK AS WELL AS A FEW OTHER ANTENNAS HERE AND THERE.  AS DAVE
RELATED IT WAS GREAT TO HEAR THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY THIS WEEKEND
FROM EUROPE, USA, AND SOUTH AMERICA.  EUROPE STARTING COMING IN VIA A
SOUTHERLY SCATTER PATH SATURDAY MORNING BETWEEN ABOUT 1120Z AND 1140Z, THEN
THE PATH WENT DIRECT.  THE EU OPENING SEEMED BETTER AND DEEPER ON SUNDAY
WITH MANY MORE RUSSIAN STATIONS AND SOME

THREE RECORDS STILL REMAIN FROM 1988, NOW THE OLDEST ONES ON THE BOOKS IN
W/VE/XE.  WHO WILL TAKE THE CHALLENGE NEXT YEAR AND SET NEW RECORDS FOR
ATLANTIC DIVISION SINGLE OP, PHONE ONLY, HIGH POWER HELD BY W3LPL WA8MAZ,
OP HUDSON DIVISION SINGLE OP, PHONE ONLY, LOW POWER HELD BY N2BJ, AND
NORTHWESTERN DIVISION SINGLE OP, MIXED MODE, HIGH POWER HELD BY NL7GP?  IN
ADDITION TO THE 50 DIVISION RECORDS THERE WERE FOUR NEW W/VE/XE CATEGORY
RECORDS SET, THE FIRST SINCE 2002.  CONGRATULATIONS TO KM3T AT KC1XX ON
SETTING A NEW SINGLE OP, MIXED MODE, HIGH POWER RECORD, VY2ZM ON SETTING A
NEW SINGLE OP, CW ONLY, HIGH POWER RECORD AND K1LZ FOR SETTING A NEW
MULTIOPERATOR, HIGH POWER RECORD.  KD2RD CAME OUT ON TOP OF ALL ENTRANTS IN
THE NEW MOLP CATEGORY AND NOW HOLDS THAT RECORD.  ON THE DX FRONT 15 NEW
CONTINENT RECORDS WERE SET, THE FIRST SINCE 2007.  FIVE OF THESE WERE THE
INITIAL RECORDS IN THE NEW MOLP CATEGORY.  THERE ARE STILL A FEW OLD
CONTINENTAL RECORDS OUT THERE TO AIM AT IF THAT IS YOUR GOAL.  THE OLDEST
IS A 1975 ANTARCTICA RECORD HELD BY THE SOUTH POLE CLUB STATION, KC4AAC
K1KI, OP IN THE SINGLE OP, MIXED MODE, HIGH POWER CATEGORY.  EXTRAORDINARY
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RECORDS WERE SET AT THE DXCC ENTITY AND W/VE/XE SECTION LEVEL.  LOOKING AT
IT ANOTHER WAY, ALMOST 1 IN EVERY 12 LOGS CONTAINED A RECORD SCORE AND 1 IN
EVERY 5 DXCC AND W/VE/XE SECTION RECORDS WAS SET IN 2011.  COMPARATIVELY
ONLY 34 SUCH RECORDS WERE SET IN 2010.  THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF KEN, WM5R
A FULL SET OF CONTEST RECORDS IS AVAILABLE AT WWW. ARRL. ORG/CONTESTS.  OF
THESE 432 RECORDS, 226 WERE DX ENTITY RECORDS AND 206 WERE W/VE/XE SECTION
RECORDS.  THERE WERE 149 HIGH POWER RECORDS, 221 LOW POWER RECORDS 117 OF
THESE BEING INITIAL RECORDS IN THE MOLP CATEGORY AND 63 QRP RECORDS SET.
MEXICAN OPERATORS CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN INCREASING NUMBERS WITH 40 NEW
XE RECORDS IN 2011.  THERE ARE NOW RECORDS IN 68 OF THE 352 POSSIBLE ENTRY
CATEGORIES IN XE, UP FROM 28 LAST YEAR.  WITHIN W/VE/XE A TOTAL OF 50
DIVISION RECORDS WERE SET.  SEVENTEEN OF THESE WERE THE INITIAL RECORDS IN
THE NEW MOLP CATEGORY AND 10 WERE FROM MEXICO WHERE OPERATORS SET NEW
RECORDS IN EVERY CATEGORY EXCEPT SINGLE OP, MIXED MODE, QRP.  WHAT A GREAT
EFFORT FROM XE IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE CONTEST WITH THE NEW RULES.  SEE
THE SIDEBAR MEXICAN ACTIVITY UPDATE.  DIVISION RECORDS WERE SPRINKLED
ACROSS ALL THE OPERATING CATEGORIES THOUGH NO NEW RECORDS WERE SET IN THE
PHONE ONLY LOW OR HIGH POWER CATEGORIES OUTSIDE OF MEXICO.  EVEN WITH THIS
BIG BATCH OF NEW RECORDS THERE ARE STILL SOME OLD ONES OUT THERE TO AIM AT.
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