CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: KF9YR
Operator(s): KF9YR
Station: KF9YR
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 1 1 1
40: 37 11 25
20: 249 23 93
15: 272 25 97
10: 232 24 83
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Total: 791 84 299 Total Score = 824,982
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
The week before this contest my wife had great news. She was taking the kids to
a water park for the weekend so I could "play on the radio" all weekend.
I went to a seminar on Wednesday and had a sore throat, on Thursday I visited a
doctor and received a shot to clear up the strep throat he diagnosed.
On Friday my voice was hoarse and I heard the solar flare was going to make
conditions terrible.
Saturday 00:30, I packed the car and put the kids to bed and turned the radio
on.
I worked around 100 contacts on 20 meters then switched to 40. I couldn't
believe how bad the conditions were, I tried answering a few of the cq's I
could dig out and decided to go to bed and rest my hoarse voice.
I worked S&P exclusively since I could quit anytime I needed a drink for my sore
throat, by Sunday 03:00 I was pretty hoarse again and when 20 started slowing
down I rented a movie since 40 and 80 were so rotten the first evening.
After finishing the movie I thought I would try working a few mults on 40 and
worked all 37 of my 40M contacts before my voice gave out again. I shouldn't
have given up on the new dipole after the night before but I thought I had made
a lousy antenna not realizing the propagation was terrible on 40.
Sunday started out great, died down to nothing when the flare hit, then
gradually came back up. I usually hear lots of Asiatic Russian stations and was
lucky to get any in the log this year. I didn't think I would get any 10M
pacific/asia/Antartica in the log this year either until an opening at 2300
Sunday afternoon when I worked CE0A, CE9, KH6, 5W, 9M6, VR, and ZK1/s in a 30
minute span.
I had hoped to work at least 1000 q's and score at least 1 million points but
791 q's with all s&p, a sore throat, and a solar flare makes for a better
story!
See you again next year!
George / KF9YR
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