WAE DX Contest, CW
Call: GW7X
Operator(s): GW3NJW
Station: GW3NJW
Class: Single Op HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 33
Summary:
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
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80: 25 29 11
40: 164 269 37
20: 144 190 44
15: 118 207 43
10: 25 30 11
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Total: 486 725 146 Total Score = 424,008
Club: Contest Cambria
Comments:
Antenna already broken, conditions broken, then at 0001z found Writelog 10.34
was also broken. Felt like wrapping it in and getting some sleep.
However this is far and away the best contest in the calendar, which always
demands of me- as an operator- a bit more than I have in the tank; well OK then
quite a lot more, you're right, but don't rub it in!.
QSOs down by about 11% overall this year, but it is not clear how much is due to
the broken antenna ( like 7:1 SWR at worst!), and how much to the poor
conditions, a bit of both I suspect. Lost about half the 15m QSOs from last
year, about the same for 10m, which is never good in August. 20m was also down,
although not as much, and it was most noticeable that the VE3s had auroral
flutter, which the East Coast US did not. 40m took up some of the slack, but
just not enough. 80m was OK, but the QRN was murder..
Highlight- increased activity fron Africa.
Lowlight- Missing JA on 40m, then afterwards ( when the band was closed)
realising that I had failed to remember how broken the verticals were, and that
I had to fire 180 degrees from the switch position. Thus I was spraying the RF
on the LP, which of course wasn't open! Oh well, at least I got a few LUs just
afterwards!
Soooh I celebrate my 60th birthday by missing a lot of sleep, and staying glued
to the radio; is this a sign of impending dementia? Well so what, there are
probably worse ways, allegedly.
Station
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TS870, Alpha 78
Antenna- Crippled W1CF/Butternut hybrid array.
Writelog 10.34B ( don't even think about it! Stick with 10.33)
73
Clive
GW3NJW
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