CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N1UR
Operator(s): N1UR
Station: N1UR
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: VT
Operating Time (hrs): 44
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 50 11 26
80: 276 20 78
40: 276 25 83
20: 772 26 92
15: 387 79 23
10: 39 22 11
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Total: 1800 116 380 Total Score = 2,524,532
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Great fun as always. Conditions were obviously great for this time in the
sunspot cycle, but not as good up here at Latitude 45 as it was for some of you
folks.
>From here, 40M was playing weird all weekend. I never really saw a EU sunrise
surge on either day. 40 opened early as expected and signals into EU were easy
to work from about 2:30pm local here. I never had anything like the sustained
runs of last year. Spent a considerable amount of time CQing with some success
but not great. Long Path openings on 40M were less than previous as well. From
what I could tell from the ARRL Prop Bulletin put out today, I was suffering
from an abnormally high A index at my latitude.
So that put me more on 80 where I put in my best 80 score ever for me in a CQ
WW. The antennas worked great and conditions here were a lot better. Missed
the VK Sunday morning but he wasnâ??t hearing a bunch of other people either.
Never heard Zone 1 (or on any other band either). Conditions to EU were just
excellent. I had a few runs especially between 05 â?? 06Z on Sunday morning
where I was running 50 â?? 60 rate for about 45 mins.
160 played pretty nicely. I think I missed some by not going there in the last
2 hours. I usually find that it is just too early but 40 was a bust in the last
hour. I feel good on 160 with my antennas, but not great.
20 was in very nice shape although closing earlier than last year and I never
heard central and southeast Asia despite nice JA openings both evenings (even
ran about 10 JAs over the 2 evenings with about 30 mins total investment). I
couldnâ??t bust the zone 27 pile-ups Sunday evening but other than that, I
worked all the DX that I heard towards that part of the world. My Qs were down
somewhat vs. last year but the main reason for that was being able to go to 15M
earlier and staying there longer on both days. Best rate on 20 was Saturday
morning with a personal best (Domestic) 210 on the 10 min rate meter and a last
60 mins rate of 155. I was at 135 plus for a solid 2 â?? 2 ½ hours on 20M
Saturday morning.
15M was very nice both mornings. Had 80+ rate going consistently for a few
hours. Much deeper openings than 2005 including lots of Russian prefixes this
time. There was A LOT of activity on 15 and that helped band crowding on 20.
Had some nice Pacific openings but no JA heard from here.
10M was okay. I was hoping for better all weekend. I heard some faint EU but
couldnâ??t work them. I did work CU2 in Zone 14 and many loud Africa stations.
Worked South America obviously but signal strengths were not nearly as loud as
for CQ WW SSB. Never even heard anything west of zone 4.
Overall my score was virtually identical to last year with a few less Qs. 80
was up, 20 and 15 combined to be very similar but slightly up, 10 and 160 were
very close. The big story was 40 where I was way off of last years pace.
No Murphy on this one. Got in a solid 44 hours (my record is 44.5). I would
have stayed up longer if I was running 40M at 08Z but with conditions the way
they were, I took a nap.
All the antennas did well. I fixed my 10M connector problem so the new 5 el at
70 feet played very nicely. I would still like to improve my antennas on 40 â??
160 but wouldnâ??t everybody.
Beverages are a real help for contests. This year I found that noise was quite
low. I hardly used it on 40 but always use it on 80 and 160. I now have 2
beverages, 1000 feet NE and 600 feet West both terminated at the ends.
See you next week for my first ever full 160 contest.
73
Ed N1UR
Antennas:
2 â?? 70 foot Towers
10: 5 el @ 70 and 3 el @ 50 fixed south
15: 3 el @ 80, 5 el @50 fixed south, 8 el @ 30 fixed NE
20: 4/4 @ 70 and 35 (top rotates, bottom fixed NE), 2 el @ 57 feet fixed south
40: 2el @ 80
80: 2 el wire array at 60 feet (NE/SW) and sloper to the south
160: inv vee at 70 feet and vertical T with 32 radials (60 feet vertical)
FT-1000MP/FT-990 DXDoubler TRLog
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