CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5NA
Operator(s): K5NA
Station: K5NA
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 100 23 71
80: 190 32 116
40: 305 38 132
20: 280 37 135
15: 271 34 121
10: 82 21 50
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Total: 1228 185 625 Total Score = 2,687,580
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
I decided to spend a weekend DXing in the CQWW CW and not really contesting.
That means I operated assisted and worked as many DX countries and zones as I
could. Since I wasn't going for score, there was no pressure for me to run and
hold a frequency. But I did run occasionally when I got bored or there were no
DX pileups to try to break.
I spent 48 hours in the chair and dozed occasionally when I just couldn't keep
my eyes open any longer. I made QSOs in every clock hour of the 48 hours. The
lowest total in any one hour was 2 QSOs in the 1200Z time slot the second
morning. That was when I took my longest doze break of 45 minutes. The other
doze breaks were generally 15 to 20 minutes in length.
I had worked hard the week before to set up my new Microham SO2R box for the
contest. I had originally thought I would spend more time running and doing the
2 radio thing. But it didn't happen because I was having too much fun DXing.
The low bands(40, 80, & 160) were about as good as I have ever heard them from
Central Texas. Who would have thought that I would have worked over 100
countries on 80M. That really surprised me. 40M was the hottest band with
openings world-wide.
It was great fun.
73, Richard - K5NA
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