CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N3UM
Operator(s): N3UM
Station: N3UM
Class: SOAB HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 11 6 7
80: 100 13 42
40: 240 17 77
20: 445 28 74
15: 438 24 58
10: 320 24 64
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Total: 1554 112 322 Total Score = 1,969,926
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Wow. Sunspots are back. In every contest my goal is
to do better than I did last year, but I did not expect to
claim 1.97 M points this year, blowing past my previous
best of 1.57 M points claimed in 2010.
Essentially, the difference was 10 meters. In the 4 years
'08 - '11 inclusive, I made 837 to 902 QSOs on 15 and 20 m.
combined: as a detail, this year about half of those 15 & 20
QSOs were on 15 m. vs 7-10% on that band in '08 - '10.
BUT, on 10 m. I made 320 QSOs and 88 mults this year
vs 48 QSOs and 31 mults last year. Not since 2001 and
2002 have I gotten comparable numbers on 10 m.
My low-band results were down a few tens of QSOs this
year from '09 and '10, though quite comparable to '08,
but the slight dropoff from 2010 was buried by the
avalanche of 10 m. results. My best one-hour rate was
on 10 m., 102 QSOs 15-16 Z Sun. Whenever I CQ'd with 10
open to EU from this mid-size station in a common zone
and country, I was buried in a screaming pileup. I worked
264 EU stations on 10 m. vs. NONE last year.
And, 10 m. yielded mults far and rare: 9J, KH2, JA, VK, ZL.
The sunspots also served up mults not heard much in recent
years on other bands: 5H, BY, KH0, VU, and VK on 15 m.,
and HS, KH0, VK, VU, and YB on 20 m. Even 40 m. yielded
4J, A7, and ZD8.
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