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10.  THE W/VE MULTI MULTI CATEGORY WAS WON FOR THE FIRST TIME BY A STATION
THAT HAD TRIED FOR MANY YEARS.  DX QRP FEATURED A CLOSE RACE FOR THE TOP
SPOT BETWEEN TWO EUROPEANS THAT WAS DECIDED BY MULTIPLIER COUNT ON 160
METERS.  TWELVE US CALL AREA RECORDS, MOSTLY IN SINGLE BAND CATEGORIES ON
1R8 AND 3R5 MHZ, WERE BROKEN INCLUDING THREE THAT DATED ALL THE WAY BACK TO
1985.  THREE CONTINENTAL RECORDS IN SINGLE BAND CATEGORIES WERE SET FROM
THE DX SIDE.  THE CLOSE FINISHES, NATURALLY, ARE ALWAYS THE ONES THAT KEEP
CONTESTING INTERESTING EACH YEAR.  THE CLOSEST OF ALL OF THEM FOR THIS
YEARS RUNNING TURNED OUT TO BE W/VE SINGLE BAND 20 METERS WITH A LESS THAN
4 QSO MARGIN OUT OF 1600 MAKING THE DIFFERENCE IN DETERMINING A WINNER.
ARRL DX CW 2006 ALSO FEATURED A SQUEEZE IN THE W/VE HIGH POWER, W/VE MULTI
MULTI, DX QRP AND DX MULTI MULTI CATEGORIES.  W/VE QRP THIS IS A RECORDING
THE 2005 RESULTS FOR THE W/VE QRP CATEGORY LED OFF WITH THE OBSERVATION
THAT THE TOP 10 WAS GEOGRAPHICALLY DIVERSE TOPPED WITH A CATEGORY WIN BY
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JO1WKO/ 340 JP1IOF/341 JP1NWZ/ 342 JQ1BNA/341 JR1BLX/ 350 JR1CBC/ 344
JR1DUP/345 JR1IZM/ 338 JR1MLU/ 350 JR1MVA/ 341 JR1TNE/353 JR1XIS/ 343
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