CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: W7YAQ
Operator(s): W7YAQ
Station: W7YAQ
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Sisters OR
Operating Time (hrs): 35
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 19 8 7
80: 54 19 24
40: 162 30 60
20: 390 31 92
15: 162 26 62
10: 21 7 8
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Total: 808 121 253 Total Score = 820,182
Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
Comments:
First ever serious effort in this contest. It wasnâ??t until a few minutes ago
when looking at the 3830 entries, that I realized that single operators were
NOT limited to 36 hours. I wonder where I got the notion of a 36 hour limit.
Next time I will read the rules carefully, although Iâ??m not sure I could have
spent more time productively in the chair.
Lots and lots of S&P here.
Highlights:
-- Making contacts with stations with much longer CW calls than W7YAQ:
JK2VOC/BA4TB, VP2V/DL7VOG, CE0Y/SM6CUK, and (my favorite) 8N1YT70Y/1
-- Being called by P29CW 2 minutes before the end of the contest â?? just about
the only non-JA response to a CQ
-- Finding TX3A on 4 bands, usually hanging out quietly just above the low band
edge
-- All the activity from Africa, and zones 7, 8, and 9; and from our VE friends
to the north
-- Working DXCC in a weekend
Lowlights:
-- Only 12.6 percent EU QSOs. Note to Zone 5 guys â?? Working JAs from Zone 3
doesnâ??t compensate!
-- Eastern EU, Mideast, UA9 missing from log. No zone 20, 21, 22, 34, six zone
16, one zone 17, two zone 18 Qs. Heard but missed zone 39 (5R8ZO, VQ99JC).
-- Only 1 EU on 15 meters (CR2X)
-- Sticky rotator. It took lots of control box CW/CCW rocking to move by end
of contest
Rig:
K3 at 100 watts
Ants:
160: MA160V short top-loaded vertical
80: Inv V at 65 feet
40-10: 3-el Steppir with 30/40 trombone dipole at 70 feet
73 and thanks for the fun and QSOs,
Bob W7YAQ
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