CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: XE2B
Operator(s): XE2B
Station: XE2B
Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: AGS
Operating Time (hrs): 24.2
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10: 2501 30 98
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Total: 2501 30 98 Total Score = 775,552
Club: Araucaria DX Group
Comments:
Congratulations to all the winners and new record holders!
The high expectations materialized this time; these were the best conditions
experienced from this location, since I was licensed and working contests since
only 21 years ago!
The only pre-planning was to check probable openings and try to maximize the
3-point QSOs with EU, JA and SA. This time the decision was to go unassisted to
focus solely on skills.
The contest begins for us on Friday night at 19:00 hrs. CST, which normally
gives us an hour or so of 10M propagation.
I started running stateside stations and managed to get a run of 313 Q�'s
during the first 105 minutes of operation. Propagation ended and I went to
sleep at 0219z.
I woke up at 1200z, had some light breakfast with a strong ristretto and
started S&P at 1249z;
1340z started with what became the best EU run ever had, it lasted until
1700z.
1840z I did a 55 minutes hard stop to have some quality time �"via Skype-
with my daughter KC2GGU, her husband and grandsons -who last month relocated to
Gottingen in Germany.
Some S&P and then back to running. Halfway thru the period I had already
accumulated 1,400 Q’s.
Last QSO logged -on our Saturday, was at 9:40 PM (Sun -0240z)!
Sunday propagation started at 1259z and this time the last 11 hours were
slightly less intense with runs that led to a count of almost 1,300 Q�'s.
Highlights :
1) Being called by P3N, TA7EB, A71BX and many others which normally are
very
hard to get a Q from this location due to the NA wall.
2) 13 UA9s stations on the log! Never seen this before on this band
3) Lows: almost a 100 Dupes!
Top countries:
1. USA : 1,405
2. Japan: 308
3. Germany: 100
4. Canada: 58
5. Poland: 50
Best Runs >100 Q’s
2013-10-26 0000 - 0146Z, 313 Qs, 176.6/hr
2013-10-26 1340 - 1543Z, 300 Qs, 146.1/hr
2013-10-26 1708 - 1844Z, 218 Qs, 136.1/hr
2013-10-26 2004 - 0119Z, 586 Qs, 111.6/hr
2013-10-27 1259 - 1539Z, 311 Qs, 116.9/hr
2013-10-27 1743 - 1906Z, 152 Qs, 109.7/hr
2013-10-27 2121Z - 23:59, 319 Qs, 121.0/hr
….amusing to hear several stations IDing themselves with QRZ? Instead of the
callsign.
The final two hours of the contest were very intense because VA6MA was closing
in very fast -on the virtual duel shown on cqcontes.ru.
At the end of the contest I had smashed the previous record held by XE1OH since
1987!
Many thanks to all for the Q's
Rig : FT-1000MP + Ameritron AL-800H
Antennas : 3 ele Yagi @ 27 Mts height
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