CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 28:04
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 5
80: 148
40: 581
20: 684
15: 65
10: 6
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Total: 1489 Prefixes = 646 Total Score = 3,371,474
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
Contest opened with a bang and the first 5 hours were fantastic hours and I was
having a great time.
20m stayed open until I went to bed around 3:30am local. Yeeha! Bring it on.
<Mike opens the excuse book and picks a good page......hmmm, here we are,
page 4.....>
Saturday went a lot slower and then in the evening I blew a tire, the wheel
fell off and the axel dug into the pavement.
HARD. I finally threw in the towel and gave up at midnight or so. I had
originally planned 32-33hrs BICT for this event
that I had been really looking forward to, to try out my reworked 15m array. I
barely got to use it.
Overslept, (badly), so those # of hours didn't happen. Oops. Earplugs worked
too well and I missed my alarm by 4 or 5
hours. ;-S
Sunday was a true GRIND ! Lots of 20-30Q's/hr hours. Ugh. I walked away from
the radio almost every hour for 10-
20mins just to keep from going insane. Even CQing on alternating bands failed
miserably as pretty much only 20m was
open all day Sunday. sigh. . . At least I was at the radio and not under the
weather like local dude VE9CB. This ones for
you Dave ! (If you had to (unwillingly) pick a 'WPX to miss, this would be the
one)
Only a couple Q's on the fringe bands 10/160 - I was really reaching by even
having to look there. Signals were OK-ish
on 80m Friday night, but local storms just killed it and I couldn't hear the
EU's calling - sorry !
Most exciting 40m QSO was VK3JA , LP (SE)over Africa with the sun still well in
the sky here. He was good copy too and
stuck it out for 4 or 5 overs to insure he got my number correct. Well done!
(post test) I see I was spotted in China but never made that QSO, but do recall
getting called by one but never heard a
report whatsoever. And so it goes.....
No ZL, one Hawaii, almost zero AF. This was the NAQP with a smattering of
watery EU tossed in.
Antennas here are mostly 4-squares or similar type arrays for the primary radio
and I ran 650-700w there.
Radio 2 is on a ZS6BKW w/ added 15m vee and about 450w-500w there.
Thanks to Dennis, W1UE for helping me with upgrading my firmware on the YCCC
SO2R+ box and getting the s/w
setup with N1MM+. I did a pseudo 2BSIQ (poorly, hi) on Friday into Saturday
but I am just learning. It's a rush when
2 QSO's are interleaved perfectly, which seldom happened for me. Sat/Sun were
the normal run and S&P on the 2nd
radio.
Hope condx get better than this or I'll have to take up VLF operating !
Gross QSOs=1510 Dupes=18 Net QSOs=1492
Unique callsigns worked = 1185
The best 60 minute rate was 124/hour from 0151 to 0250
The best 30 minute rate was 138/hour from 0143 to 0212
The best 10 minute rate was 150/hour from 0157 to 0206
The best 1 minute rates were:
4 QSOs/minute 6 times.
3 QSOs/minute 83 times.
2 QSOs/minute 299 times.
1 QSOs/minute 621 times.
There were 324 bandchanges and 126 (8.4%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 6
4 803
5 509
6 163
7 6
8 2
9 2
10 1
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 954
2 bands 169
3 bands 50
4 bands 10
5 bands 2
6 bands 0
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 4 68 372 484 25 1
73 es CU in the next one (all of a sudden!)
Mike VE9AA dit dit
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