ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: VO1MP
Operator(s): VO1MP
Station: VO1MP
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NL
Operating Time (hrs): 27
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 53 33
80: 89 51
40: 495 67
20: 1057 80
15: 84 37
10:
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Total: 1778 268 Total Score = 1,429,512
Club: East Coast Canada Contest Club
Comments:
Conditions were not great ... had hoped to put in more hours but low band
conditions provided absolutely no incentive to stay awake especially on
Friday nite, cannot remember when I have ever heard 40 meters so barren of
signals .........most of the European big guns were down 30-40 db and
propagation was spotty from here. Fortunately that band recovered and
enabled a few good spates of CQ'in on Saturday and Sunday....... 20 meters
again the only bread and butter band and did provide some activity .... not
one JA .... did have a few YB's call in on 20 ....and lots of middle east
especially 4X..... kept an eye on 15 but it only opened briefly on Sunday
long enough to provide a few EU mults, for the most part 15 meter propagaton
from here was north south and that bit of scewed path propagation to Europe on
Sunday...... Not a peep on 10 ..... however I Did manage a few 5 banders
....no frequency fights so I guess this speaks volumes for the conditions
hi !
Elected to dig in on 40 and stay around 7050 to CQ and receive on the same
frequency ............ man that's tough especially with the big European
stations 1.5 KC either side of you working split and completely oblivious to
your presence...... however I did manage to work a lot of 10 and 20 watt
European novices.... 80 meters was biggest disappointment...... and 160
continues to yield a few mults...... however sunspots cannot happen TOO
soon .. hi !
Did get a weather break so managed to replace the driven element on my 20
meter yagi.... also did slight modification to beef it up a bit .... we'll
see I guess we still some winter left here yet hi !
Piss and Moan section....
Biggest complaint .... again ... that rather ubiquitous station QRZ ...
was out in full force again this contest ... especially in the Caribean and
now ..South America ... dont know why saying "THANKS QRZ " qrz is shorter
than jest saying XX1X ...... go figure...
oh well lots of fun my favourite contest ... hope to be on for the WPX..
thanks for qsos/qsys ...
C'Y'ALL Next One
GLWCDR
73 Gus VO1MP
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