ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: OE4A
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: OE4A
Class: SOAB HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 41
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 58 19
80: 286 40
40: 863 53
20: 1403 57
15: 87 23
10: 0 0
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Total: 2697 192 Total Score = 1,553,472
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Realized my business trip to Europe ended the day before the contest. Rather
than fly home and be tired, thought I would try to find a station and hear what
the contest sounds like from the other side. Many thanks to Braco, OE1EMS, for
arranging an invitation to OE4A. Braco also spent two trips to the station to
give me a 160 meter antenna! Station owner, Rainer, OE4RLC, was very helpful
in showing me how the station worked and staying with me until the 1am finish
time!
Rig: FT1000MP Mark V Field
Antennas:
160 - some kind of inverted L looking thing
80 - 2-el Optibeam @25m
40 - 3-el Optibeam @20m
20/15 - Big Optibeam @25m
Only one radio so band changes sometimes took 10 minutes for me to find a new
frequency among all the crowding.
The station is one of the quietest receiving locations I have ever experienced.
I could hear all the way to the noise floor of the receiver on 40-15 meters.
The strength of the OE4A location is on 15m. Too bad the band never really
opened so I could enjoy it. Did get two short runs on Sunday.
Not sure why the 80m score is so low. Just couldn't get answers to CQs there.
Thought there might be a problem with the antenna until I had 6 different
California stations call me on Sat night. Even so, never worked any W7 and
missed lots of other mults on that band.
ARRL DX is much different from Europe than the USA. It seems that most of the
activity for the contest is in Europe. So always difficult to find a
frequency. Also many times when the band was open to USA, but there was no one
there to work. Best examples were the early opening on 40 (band was wide open
at 3pm EST, but no one around) and again well after EU sunrise (would be 3am
EST, again no one around).
I did sleep 2 hours the first morning and 4 hours the second. Contest ends at
1am. Drove to the airport and caught a 6am flight to Frankfurt and then home.
TBands open better to the South than the North. Never knew there were so many
contesters in FL and NC!
hanks again to Rainer and Braco for hosting my contest expedition to Austria!
Great fun (even with poor propagation) and great memories.
QSO/Sec by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
00Z --+-- --+-- 141/36 --+-- --+-- --+-- 141/36 141/36
01Z - 9/8 79/2 - - - 88/10 229/46
02Z 4/4 22/7 47/4 - - - 73/15 302/61
03Z 5/3 2/0 76/2 - - - 83/5 385/66
04Z 38/11 44/10 - - - - 82/21 467/87
05Z 1/0 16/2 22/0 - - - 39/2 506/89
06Z - 1/0 26/0 - - - 27/0 533/89
07Z - - 7/0 1/1 - - 8/1 541/90 42
08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 541/90 60
09Z - - 3/0 1/1 - - 4/1 545/91 39
10Z - - - 19/10 - - 19/10 564/101 29
11Z - - - 44/9 - - 44/9 608/110
12Z - - - 123/10 - - 123/10 731/120
13Z - - - 137/5 - - 137/5 868/125
14Z - - - 115/7 1/1 - 116/8 984/133
15Z - - - 110/6 - - 110/6 1094/139
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 109/4 --+-- --+-- 109/4 1203/143
17Z - - - 112/3 1/1 - 113/4 1316/147
18Z - - - 84/0 6/4 - 90/4 1406/151
19Z - - - 49/1 - - 49/1 1455/152
20Z - - 10/0 35/0 - - 45/0 1500/152
21Z - - 37/1 - - - 37/1 1537/153
22Z - - 61/1 - - - 61/1 1598/154
23Z - - 76/1 - - - 76/1 1674/155
00Z 9/1 5/2 27/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 41/3 1715/158
01Z - 82/6 - - - - 82/6 1797/164
02Z - 1/0 52/1 - - - 53/1 1850/165
03Z - 33/2 25/0 - - - 58/2 1908/167
04Z - 43/3 - - - - 43/3 1951/170
05Z 1/0 5/0 - - - - 6/0 1957/170
06Z - - 6/0 - - - 6/0 1963/170 22
07Z - - - - - - 0/0 1963/170 60
08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1963/170 60
09Z - - - - - - 0/0 1963/170 60
10Z - - - 3/0 - - 3/0 1966/170 37
11Z - - - 11/0 - - 11/0 1977/170
12Z - - - 38/0 - - 38/0 2015/170
13Z - - - 61/0 - - 61/0 2076/170
14Z - - - 29/0 25/9 - 54/9 2130/179
15Z - - - 68/0 - - 68/0 2198/179
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 83/0 --+-- --+-- 83/0 2281/179
17Z - - - 78/0 15/4 - 93/4 2374/183
18Z - - - 21/0 39/4 - 60/4 2434/187
19Z - - - 61/0 - - 61/0 2495/187
20Z - - 15/0 11/0 - - 26/0 2521/187
21Z - - 47/0 - - - 47/0 2568/187
22Z - - 66/5 - - - 66/5 2634/192
23Z - 23/0 40/0 - - - 63/0 2697/192
Total:58/19 286/40 863/53 1403/57 87/23 0/0
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