2024 WPX Contest SSB on 10m band

 I participated in the WPX contest SSB 10m band with 100W.

Last year I made 800 QSOs, so this year I aimed for 1000 QSOs and 2 million points.

As a result, I achieved 1003 QSOs just before the end of the competition except for duplicates, but my score was a little short of 2 million points.

I did not expect the conditions to be as good as for North America in the morning, but I still made almost 200 QSOs, so that is good.

As for Europe, I was able to accumulate stations efficiently because of their smart calling.

It was also interesting to note that the area where the most QSOs were made was zone 14, which is not in the near vicinity of Europe.

As for OC, Oceania, recently, many stations have been able to be found in YB, but there seem to be few stations on 28MHz, so there may be many stations on 21MHz.

As for VK,ZL, I feel that there are not many stations from the northern hemisphere that consciously point their antennas toward the south and Oceania, as I experienced in Tonga as A31MM.

So, I am taking the time to point the antenna and run it even toward Oceania, so that there are stations that will call me.

The South American direction has been heard consistently and the response rate has been good except for the times they do it with North America.

I was not concerned about communicating with the Caribbean or Africa since the prefix is multi, not DXCC, for this contest.

Instead, I put stations with new prefixes on the N1MM available list and called them in a timely manner.

As a result, I had 692 multis, about 150 more than last year.

In this contest, multis are scored only once for all bands, not per band.

Therefore, it is also interesting to note that my score in the single band contest exceeded the scores of other multi-band stations.

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IC-7700(100W) 6ele yagi, Heil iC mic element

N1MM