CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: DL1IAO
Operator(s): DL1IAO
Station: DL1IAO
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: JN48HV
Operating Time (hrs): 46.2
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 114 7 46
80: 518 14 69
40: 620 22 94
20: 509 27 82
15: 543 29 101
10: 426 30 90
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Total: 2730 129 482 Total Score = 3,208,972
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
2x TS870, Topten decoders, WX0B filters
CT981 on 2 Ethernet-linked P200´s
KT34A @17m, 40m Rotary DP @20m, 80m DP @17m,
160M: 40m antenna + feedline used as T-Vertical (ran out of time)
One full week needed to get the station back in shape. This included fixing
both radios, the rotor and one of the PC´s. I failed with the homebrew amp so
ended up LP as last year. The 40m Rotary DP (one half of a 40-2CD) played
quite well and it sure was a thrilling feeling to have to rotate "something" to
work a multiplier on 40!
I did not even try to break some of the huge packet pileups. I would just
put them into the band map and return to their frequency on a regular basis.
Sometimes I got them with the first call this way, sometimes not. Seems odd
that I did not hear/work more multipliers (zones) as I S&P´ed almost the full
weekend. Sure many regular AS/OC areas were missed due to the degraded high
band condx.
As there was no pre-contest nap illusions on sunday evening got as bad as they
can get. One funny (?) moment was to hear someone transmitting DL1IAO 5nn21 on
40m. I looked on the screen and found a G3 12 minutes ago as my last contact,
probably on CQ. I sent out a report and hear TU YI9OM - uggh. That´s one of
the few incidents cutting down my operating time to about 46 hours!
Check out http://www.dl1iao.com for a more detailed writeup in a few days.
73,
Stefan, DL1IAO
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