CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: W4SAA
Operator(s): W4SAA K5KG
Station: K5KG
Class: M/S HP
QTH: K5KG
Operating Time (hrs): 47+
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 16
40: 557
20: 1000
15: 644
10: 243
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Total: 2460 Prefixes = 836 Total Score = 5,044,424
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
It was a last minute plan only conjured up on Thursday for Joe and me to work
WPX from my QTH. Having been out of town on a work assignment for the past
several months, my station had been QRT since the ARRL 10m Contest in December.
Joe came over Friday afternoon, and we assembled the station with a 756Pro2 and
Acom 2000. All of the gear and antennas checked out, so we loaded up WriteLog
and set up radio control and keying with no problem. We decided against setting
up a multiplier station, although in hindsight, it would have been worth some
additional points. Also, I didn't think about hooking up the rx pennant/preamp
until I realized how noisy 80m was in the middle of the night!
We got off to a good start, and shared the operating as fatigue, hunger and
nature breaks dictated. It wasn't until late in the contest that I realized
that we should have recorded ourselves as ops in the log. Nevertheless, we
split the operating time pretty evenly. We intended to record a full 48 hours
and, in the end, we only lost a few minutes out of the total 48 to munch down a
hot pizza.
Overall, band condx were very good. 15m and 20m were the money bands and
yielded some excellent long haul DX - VK, ZL, 4X, 9V, YB, JA, UN, UA9/0, 4K,
etc. On Saturday, we worked a few stns on 10m; on Sunday it opened nicely for
several hours, but was limited to only NA and SA stns.
I am pleased to note that we didn't experience any frequency rage, and the lid
population was virtually non-existant. All in all, it seemed to be a very
friendly event. We did notice a few busted packet spots, especially on some of
the stranger calls, such as SY05AIA (busted as SY0HIA), 4O3T (busted as VO3T)
and those strange and frequent DQ2006 and DR2006 calls.
On Sunday the Yaesu rotor controller quit. Fortunately, however, the rotor
motor still worked so, from that point on, we were relegated to occasionally
running out back door to see where we the yagis were pointing. We discovered
that it takes 12 seconds to rotate 90 degrees, so we simply adapted to rotating
while looking at the clock's second hand! Once in a while, however, after
several rotations back and forth, we would lose track of where we were, so it
was out the back door again to recalibrate with reality!
That's about all there is that is fit to print. Tnx to all for the QSOs.
73, George, K5KG
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