CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: II9P
Operator(s): IT9GSF
Station: II9P
Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: Sicily
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 1738 39 139 Total Score = 664,830
Club:
Comments:
Nice to work 10 meters single band from mountain top QTH at II9P. I had the
opportunity to work via southern paths overlooking the sea with not common
propagation via long path to Pacific and JAs during the late evening. Signals
coming from Asia, in the morning, are very strong in this QTH. Nort american
"beacon" VE9AA arrived very early in the morning too. Propagation on
saturday was better than on sunday but both days was worst than the previous
week. North american signals faded out very early after sunset and, as natural,
I was listening to DR1A and other stations from western EU working north
american stations one hour later. Very important for north american stations is
to beam to south Atlantic ocean after 19Z as I was listening to skewed path
signals coming from there. Also, nice to listen N6RO via Long Path at their
sunset. Here in south EU we could have some more propagation than expected if
other stations would beam the unusual way as, of course, long path to JA after
JA Sunrise.
Antennas played an important role: I had a stacked Yagi system to North America
(fixed), a stacked Yagi system to JA with the upper antenna rotatable (all long
Yagis with excellent S/N designed by II9P's EME spacialist Marcello, IT9CJC.
About the result, it is just few thousands points over the sicilian 1991 record
made from my station by IT9VDQ. I expected to do much more but propagation was
not so good. It was possible to reach the 1900 QSO number but I spent much of
the time S&Ping to find mults and to work stations. Also I had two black
outs, the first during good propagation time to North America (very short
duration) and the second at 1747Z on sunday till the end of the contest! (No
power generator this time there, :-( Maybe it was a mistake to S&P for so
long time as many multiplier stations went to answer my calls after that and,
with a QSO/MULT value of 9:1, maybe 200 QSOs more were better than 20 mults
more (but I don't like to do always the same thing in a fordist way...).
I wish to thank all of you for the 10 meters QSO and hope to meet some of you
at II9P for a Multi Op effort, expecially in CW, as we always welcome guest
operators to exchange experience and operating skill ... you will enjoy!
Best 73 and regards,
Fabio, IT9GSF (II9P).
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