ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: VE7FO
Operator(s): VE7FO
Station: VE7FO
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 29:15
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 15 14
40: 46 138
20: 265 75
15: 151 42
10: 27 11
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Total: 504 167 Total Score = 250,500
Club: British Columbia DX Club
Comments:
Sorry, no story this time. Took too long to start writing it and the memories
have been washed away in the flood of other contests.
Well, I do remember one item because I wrote it down at the time.
At around 0300Z (7 pm local, Fri night) I'm working UA9, UA0, EX etc when I hear
a very faint signal calling me. Sounds like VU7. Well, I'm not going to let
this one get away. After a lot of time and effort we make the Q. It was a VE7.
Sigh!
Oh, and another one. This was quite scary.
I happen to know a couple of guys who went south for the contest, KI7Y to TI5N
and N7OU to N7OU/HI9. On Saturday night I dreamt that I worked both TI5N and
N7OU/HI9 on 6 bands and the last Q in my log was N7OU/HI9.
What actually happened
TI5N - 5 bands
N7OU/HI9 - 4 bands
Last few Qs in the log
Band Date Time QSO# Call worked Sent Rcvd Power Mults Pts
---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- ---- ---- ----- ----- ---
20CW 22-Feb-04 23:53 505 J7OJ 599 599 K J7 3$
20CW 22-Feb-04 23:54 506 HC8L 599 599 K HC8 3$
20CW 22-Feb-04 23:55 507 VP5M 599 599 K 3$
20CW 22-Feb-04 23:57 508 PY7EG 599 599 100 *DUPE* 0$
20CW 22-Feb-04 23:58 509 FY5KE 599 599 5 FY 3$
20CW 22-Feb-04 23:59 510 N7OU/HI9 599 599 100 HI 3$
Some stats on how my performance has improved in the 4 years I've been doing
this stuff.
2001 - my first ARRL DX CW in something like 30 years - about 287k
points
2002 - skills and station are much improved - about 399k
points
2003 - more improvement in both - about 280k
points
2004 - not much change in the station but cw has really improved - about 251k
points
Maybe I should stop trying to "improve" things
Did work 89 countries, though, so not too shabby.
Thanks for the Qs everyone
73 de Jim Smith VE7FO
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