Hello!
I went home for this contest (a break in the studies) to participate a
few hours. It ended with 12h operating time which was quite
enough because of no voice keyer (had problems with RFI).
This far north the conditions were really poor. I had the beam
pointing towards Europe during the whole time because there were
not any good propagations towards any other direction than
EU/Africa. Only NA worked was KL7RA and he was quite loud.
20M was the only band that worked out for me. I didn't try 80m
because that antenna is tuned for the CW part and I didn't want to
climb the tower now because it's quite slippery.
Some nice stations worked during the contest : CN2R, 3V8BB,
SU9NC, 5U7JB, ST0RY, ZS0M, 9G5MD, ZL6QH, XT2TI, A45WD,
3W2XK, CN8RM, VK6LW, ZW5B and others. Some of those
actually called me :-)
2003 MODE:PHONE
CQ World-Wide WPX Contest
CALL: SM3W
Operator : SM3WMV
Class: SOAB HP
Operating time : 12 hours
Band QSOs QSO points Prefixes
40m: 10 20 4
20m: 596 694 305
15m: 120 190 61
10m: 12 34 6
Totals: 738 938 376
Total points : 352,688
//Mike (SM3WMV // SM3W)
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