CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: 8P2K
Operator(s): 8P6SH
Station: 8P2K
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Barbados
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 2
40: 238
20: 534
15: 577
10: 126
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Total: 1477 Prefixes = 735 Total Score = 3,499,335
Club:
Comments:
This is one of my favourite contests so I enjoyed having a great week-end of
radio. I just wish conditions were better but then again it'll probably be
worse next year as we descend into the valley of the sunspot cycle.
This was the first outing with a new (to me) FT 2000 - without AC0C filter and
everything performed flawlessly except for some new noise sources that I'll
hsve to figure out in the direction to USA that made working USA on 20m all but
impossible. Still on the rig's learning curve but I like the receiver and
hopefully will have that AC0C filter installed in the next few days to improve
its contest performance.
I actually started out with a plan to do a SOSB20 entry but after the first 12
hours had yielded very few Q's, I decided to switch strategy. 15 and 40m turned
out to be pretty good and on Sunday 20m seemed to pick up as well.
It was pretty amazing the number of stations on the bands - I usually work
below 14.150 to work EU but this time there were stations wall to wall down to
14.100. I do a lot of RTTY so it was pretty weird working phone that far down
the band.
I diidn't expect anything on 10m but there were a couple good openings and I
think many stations missed these openings - at one point EU stations were
really strong but only a few seemed to realise the band was open.
D41CV was the only station I worked on all bands - they were simply loud on
every band.
Congrats to 8P5A who seemed to have just about the highest QSO count I can
remember. Congrats too to all the great ops with amazing scores.
Thanks to all who took the time to work me during the contest and good luck to
all.
73
Dean - 8P6SH / 8P2K
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