ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: VE8EV
Operator(s): VE8EV
Station: VE8EV
Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: Inuvik, NT
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 1018 94 Total Score = 287,076
Club:
Comments:
I thought this would be a good year to go single-band 20m. I still think it was
the right choice but the band conditions had me pulling my hair out most of the
time. The band was open to Europe for almost the whole weekend but not many
are awake during my best openings in the wee hours before their sunrise. I
would frequently run out of callers and have to give up and come back later.
The solar flares and the aurora would often make for very slow going at times.
N1MM says almost 23 hours of off-time but a lot of that was just when no one was
answering. There seemed to be very few JA's about and only one lonely ZL heard
from all of the South Pacific despite spending a good chunk of time beaming out
that way. In contrast to the propagation over the pole there was little in the
way of North-South propagation except for late on Sunday afternoon when I
scrambled to find as many Caribbean and South American mults as I could.
High point(s): The handful of African stations that kept popping up in the
middle of their night, almost like a "midnight peak" on both nights.
Low point: I overshot a nap overnight on Saturday and instead of having Europe
all to myself the band was packed from top to bottom with loud EU stations
working the USA East coast shortly before 1300z. When I finally found a spot to
squeeze into and got a run going some sort of solar wind anomoly wiped out the
entire band in a matter of minutes! Eu was completely gone so I turned the
beam to see if I could scare up some South Pacific stations. After a dozen or
so unanswered CQs I pulled off my headphones and turned to find the XYL
standing at the door of the shack holding a bleating CO detector and looking
EXTREMELY unimpressed...
All in all, not too bad considering the flux numbers, the solar flares and the
geomagnetic situation but I find I'm missing the early days of the cycle when
the sun was a bit calmer.
73
John VE8EV
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