During the preceding week I installed a couple of temporary Beverage antennas around the property. Then on Saturday morning I set up the station and software and luckily everything was working perfectly. Conditions seemed pretty good on the first day, I had a nice run on 20m before the sun set and 40m was excellent at night. This made for a very fun evening,rates were in the 60-70 per hour range. Getting a sweep is a big part of this contest and I knew that it would be even more challenging this year with the extensive hurricane damage to Puerto Rico and USVI. Luckily NP3A called me on 40m during the first night however early on Sunday I was still missing AB, VI, NT and NNY. Later that morning, my run rates had slowed so I turned on the spotting network hoping to find some new stations and multipliers. I immediately clicked on VY1AAA who was very easy to work and shortly later I found VE6EX while tuning across 20m. So with about 8 hours of op time left I still needed two more sections (VI and NNY). Amazingly, I never did find either one. I later learned that N6EE was operating a remote station from NNY late in the contest and I am sure that I could have worked Ron if I had known. The low bands became very noisy on Sunday evening and run rates dropped to crawl so to keep busy I often clicked on the spots of new stations that appeared. Thanks for the QSO! Please QSL via Tim, WD9DZV.

73,

John