CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: W7AT
Operator(s): W7EW
Station: W7AT
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 6 4 4
80: 48 18 23
40: 234 25 40
20: 317 30 86
15: 454 31 84
10: 691 32 84
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Total: 1750 140 321 Total Score = 2,235,389
Club:
Comments:
A part time effort to see if 2M points were possible from here. Propagation poor
on 160, 80 had no longpath, 40 had the beam reflector become mated with blowing
branches from a growing fir tree leaving it aimed to JA, 20 started early and
stayed late, 15 wasn't too crowded because 10 was open a lot for a flux of
117!
Couldn't seem to find very many Qs on 6M during the test for some reason.
There was a lot of extraordinary talent displayed during the contest around
the world. There were a few "I don't know you well enough to be this close"
moments but most Ops adjusted, whined or just left. A few said nasty words and
made nastier carriers for a while but we know who you are and why your mother
abandoned you.
I'd relinquish a run whenever I did not make a Q for 2 minutes or logged 5
zero pointers in a row.
Somehow intermittent sleeping makes this contest a whole lot of fun.
I think in order to be competitive a station might need:
1) proximity to salt water
2) hardware redundancy
3) repeal of certain laws of physics
4) significant practice or DXing from where only animals or flightless
birds exist
5) perspective/attitude
6) stay in chair making the station produce and receive RF
Thanks for the q's. Let us do this again real soon... like next month
where code doesn't quite give you the Op's vocal inflections/frustrations/pure
joy..but maybe that is a good thing!
73 and I remain,
Lew
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