CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: WH6YH
Operator(s): WH6YH
Station: WH6YH
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 10
40: 105
20: 184
15: 43
10: 10
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Total: 352 Prefixes = 236 Total Score = 317,656
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
IC-7410, 100w, OCF dipole at 40ft as Inverted V. This was a fun event for me
that generated lots of lessons learned. I need a better chair! My Sony-MDR NC-7
on-ear headphones (great for music) have too much tension and cause pain on the
cartilage. I will look for a good set of comfortable over the ear headphones.
If you can recommend one that function for long hours, I would be very
grateful. I need to get better station integration and automation; every almost
everything was hand keyed which caused some serious issues with my CTS,
arthritis and a pinched cubital nerve in my right elbow, and I am right handed.
Naturally toward the end I was noticeably inaccurate �" my sincere
apologies to the distant end OPs. Not all, but a good number of OPs had
difficultly copying my call, lots of WS6YS, W56YS, W5YH. Maybe a shorter call
is in order? Propagation was excellent Friday night into Saturday as I managed
to work several VK, ZS, ZL, KH and well into SA and AF. Back pain forced a long
sabbatical Saturday noon until Sunday as I did not start back up until the
remaining 4 hours on Sunday. Sadly, propagation was nowhere near as good as it
was Friday and Saturday and did not open back up to Eastern Europe/Western Asia
until well into Sunday. Lots of very strong signals coming from EU but a short
band allowed only working US stations and prevented EU QSO until later in the
day. After 23 years hamming, this was my very first long event "test"
as I dip my feet in to this aspect of our great hobby. Thank you for the QSO, I
truly had a lot of fun.
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