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		<title>2010 NA RTTY Sprint &#8211; 8 Q&#8217;s / 14 hour blackout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a tremendous storm come through this weekend starting on Friday. We had very high winds of 50+ mph and non-stop heavy rain starting Friday and continuing into Sunday. The NA RTTY Sprint started at 0000z (7:00 pm) Saturday evening. I got on about 10 mins late because of the weather and I made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/03/14/2010-na-rtty-sprint-8-qs-14-hour-blackout/</link>
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		<title>2010 ARRL DX SSB Summary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I had a bunch of prior commitments so operating in the contest was limited. Fri night I went out to dinner with my younger daughter while me wife and older daughter were at a friends Sweet 16. After a late dinner I got on 40m and 80m and made 36 contacts before calling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/03/08/2010-arrl-dx-ssb-summary/</link>
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		<title>TX4T QSL Confirmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the TX4T DXpedition team that was in the French Polynesia have uploaded their logs and my 15m and 20m contacts with them during the ARRL DX CW contest are now confirmed. Thanks for the 2 contacts and confirming a new DXCC for me. That puts me at 152 confirmed DXCCs.
Maybe there&#8217;ll be some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/03/04/tx4t-qsl-confirmed/</link>
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		<title>eQSL Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just happened to notice that if I was interested in doing so I could receive the eQSL WAS and eQSL DXCC awards.  I&#8217;d just have to become at least a bronze member to print out the certificates.
I upload to eQSL because it is pretty automated from my logging program and it might help others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/03/04/eqsl-awards/</link>
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		<title>2000+ contacts logged in February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to notice on Sunday morning after the NAQP RTTY contest that I was just shy of 2000 contacts for the month. Maybe that subconciously got me to make North Carolina QSO Party contacts?
After the NAQP I was about 30 contacts short of logging 2000 for the month. Prior to Feb 2010 the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/03/01/2000-contacts-logged-in-february/</link>
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		<title>North Carolina QSO Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday I participated in the NA RTTY QSO Party and hadn&#8217;t planned to do much operating on Sunday. I had a couple of computers dropped off by friends to work on to clean up some viruses that they had. Well while running through cleaning them up, I often have to wait while things run. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/03/01/north-carolina-qso-party/</link>
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		<title>2010 NAQP RTTY Summary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was the 2010 North America RTTY QSO Party (NAQP). A single operator can be active for 10 of the 12 hours the contest runs. Operators are also limited to 100w which is all I have anyway.
The night before was a warm up and I had decided to try and use the ESM function in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/02/28/2010-naqp-rtty-summary/</link>
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		<title>2010 ARRL International DX CW Contest Summary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend was the 2010 ARRL International DX CW Contest. DX stations can only contact US/Canadian stations and US/Canadian stations can only contact DX stations including Hawaii &#38; Alaska.
The most noteworthy item is that the conditions allowed me to make 10m DX contacts.  I made 20 contacts on 10m to 11 DXCC entities which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/02/22/2010-arrl-international-dx-cw-contest-summary/</link>
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		<title>VU2LBW India DXCC Confirmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the CQ WPX RTTY Contest I was able to, for the first time to make contact with an operator in India. It happened to be on 15m.
I had posted about it and received an email direct from Lakshman aka &#8221;Lucky&#8221; about the contact. We had a very nice email exchange and he indicated the log [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/02/19/vu2lbw-india-dxcc-confirmed/</link>
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		<title>Additional CQ WPX RTTY Stats &amp; Map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up with some additional info on my CQ WPX RTTY Contest Summary I have noted the following:
A) 340 contacts made during the contest have so far been confirmed via LoTW which is almost 40% confirmed in less then 1 week. More will trickle in and I would expect a total rate in the 50% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.k2dsl.com/2010/02/17/additional-cq-wpx-rtty-stats-map/</link>
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