11/27/2009 | VE8EV This year's SS was a personal best for me and I'm finally starting to feel like I know what I'm doing. I was expecting the auroral activity on Saturday to keep me out of the game until Sunday but the high (not zero!) sunspot number compensated somewhat, at least on the higher bands. I managed to get over 200 into the log before before 15m and 20m closed up Saturday afternoon. I wasn't expecting much on the low bands Saturday night and I sure wasn't disappointed. Between 0200z and 0700z my score increased by only 24 points! Sunday morning the rate waxed and waned with the aurora as I alternated between running and hunting for mults. Things picked up mid-afternoon and I even managed back-to-back runs on 15m and 20m until they closed up around 0100z. 40m was slightly better than the night before but practically everyone I could hear was
already in log so I pulled the plug and went home.

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73 and see you next year!
John -- VE8EV