ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N7ZG
Operator(s): N7ZG
Station: N7ZG
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: WWA
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 6 4
80: 15 12
40: 83 25
20: 289 59
15: 36 18
10:
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Total: 429 118 Total Score = 151,866
Club: Western Washington DX Club
Comments:
The low bands were not nearly as productive as I had hoped (as compared to years
past). 40 was good in the late afternoon, but would be like a wet noodle after
dark. 80 was the pits (could be my antenna). Good copy on lots of stations
that would just ignore me. The A index was a little high at the start of the
contest so I thought the second day would be better. Instead, I felt it was
clearly worse. I'm not sure why. 15 meters barely opened at all on Sunday.
No 15 JA runs on either of the days. I can now say that I've experienced a
solar minimum as a contester. OK, the character building excercise is now
beyond old. The bright spot was in working VP6DX in the contest on 4 bands
160, 80, 40 and 15.
The mult count is low due to very poor low band performance.
A bad day of contesting is better than a good day at work.
No significant station changes thus far.
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