CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 35
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 82 33 7 7
40: 240 43 44 17
20: 521 48 59 26
15: 605 38 64 21
10: 110 23 27 14
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Total: 1558 185 201 85 Total Score = 1,848,675
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
* FT-2000, FT-920, N1MM Logger + MMTTY
* 3-ele SteppIR at 47'
* 20-10 trapped vertical dipole (2nd radio)
* 40M SteppIR dipole at 27' / 2-el 40M quad at 2'
* 80M 3-ele triangular array (6 directions)
* Beverage 270' aimed due east
* No spotting network
Um, I guess for starters, I should note that 10M was wide open to Europe on
Sunday. A shame more stations didn't point to the West Coast, as the signals
from Europe were huge -- but only 10 from Zone 14 and 12 from Zone 15 were
heard. Other than that, 10M was sketchy most of the weekend, and nothing at all
like it was last year.
For the 2nd radio on the high bands I used the driven element of the old Mosley
Classic 33 as a vertical dipole (hanging from an elm tree branch). It sucks.
With only 100W it felt like nobody could hear me on any of the three bands, but
a few did and this poor second fiddle added about 60 Qs I wouldn't have had
otherwise.
Lowlight: The USB cables I use for CAT seized up about a dozen times during the
contest, locking up N1MM in mid-QSO (curiously, always when trying to send
confirmation TU at the end). Had to wait as long as 2 minutes for the problem
to end, so my apologies to those I didn't respond to at end of a QSO. Still not
sure what the problem was. At first I thought it might be related to using 2Tone
as second RX windows, but the most likely culprit is RF on the cables, as the
seizing never happened when making Qs on the second radio (100w).
Lowlight: 80M -- wanted to really try out the new 80M array, but the band was
quite punky and no real DX worked. Not much activity there, either.
Highlights: 40M to Europe on Friday night (not as good Saturday night). And
long runs of JA stations (88 on 15M), and strong openings to EU on 15M and 20M
(300 and 200 respectively).
Before the contest, I studied VA7KO's very impressive HP score from last year.
He made 481 Qs on 10M last year -- I knew the bands wouldn't be as strong as
they were in 2012, but I still set my sights on 1,600 QSOs and 1.95M for a HP
score (that's what Koji had last time). Fell just short of both goals with
1,558 Qs and 1.85M points, but still tripled my 2012 low-power score and
surprised myself with good totals despite 10M not really being in the mix.
Thanks for the contacts. See you in one month for the SSB leg -- not my fave,
but still looking forward to it.
-- Bud VA7ST
QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec Score
2012 1558 3925 185 85 201 1,848,675 35.0 hrs HP
2012 777 1759 119 67 168 622,686 21.5 hrs
2011 619 1345 110 67 171 468,060 18.0 hrs
2010 799 1846 128 63 155 638,716 29.0 hrs
2009 703 1643 107 55 126 473,184 26.5 hrs
2008 784 1750 111 55 135 526,750 29.0 hrs HP
2007 599 1295 74 46 119 309,505 23.0 hrs HP
Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty
3.5 82 160 7 7 33
7 240 540 17 44 43
14 521 1323 26 59 48
21 605 1643 21 64 38
28 110 259 14 27 23
Total 1558 3925 85 201 185
Score : 1,848,675
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