CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: V31VP
Operator(s): WB0TEV
Station: V31VP
Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP
QTH: Belize
Operating Time (hrs): 32:57
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 7 3 6
80: 205 12 41
40: 608 23 67
20: 441 26 59
15: 2782 32 124
10: 21 6 15
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Total: 2782 32 124 Total Score = 1,016,652
Club: DFW Contest Group
Comments:
As in the WPX SSB contest I used K3IT's nifty QSORDER program to automagically
create mp3 files of each SSB QSO made with V31VP in the contest (and some
outside the contest as well). If you would like to hear what your signal
sounded like in Belize go to the V31VP qrz.com page and you'll find where you
can enter your callsign and play the corresponding audio files.
My original plan was to file as SOAB(A) HP, but after discovering that there
are
practically no established SOSB(A) HP records in the whole of Zone 7 I think
I'll be filing my entry as SOSB(A)/15 HP. With that in mind I put an emphasis
on 15m which was red hot from down here.
I still operated all the other bands to help hand out the V3 mult to "the
deserving" and also succumb to a case of "multiplier-itis".
Were I to file as SOAB(A) HP the score would be just shy of 3.9 million, and
its NOT an SO2R setup here.
I made my first 160m QSOs (all 7 of them) from down here this trip, but given
that the only antenna so far for top band is a low slung windom, that was about
all that could be expected. I think the only US stations worked on 160 were
K3LR and W3LPL (no surprise).
I was also relegated to the windom for 10m as the A3S just would not load (VSWR
>4:1). It worked fine in the RTTY contest last month, but one or both of the
traps has likely developed a fault. At least it had the good grace to do it
near the bottom of the sunspot cycle. Off the windom I really couldn't hear and
work anything other than South America.
As it is, I ended up with 2782 QSO's on 15m, 32 Zones and 124 countries. Had
some really terrific runs. It was fun to see the rate meet pop above 300 at
times.
Some of the highlights:
* Having VK9CZ call into my 15m run and then EXACTLY 24 hours later call into
my 20m run.
* In the closing minutes of the contest in the midst of a JA run on 15m I asked
JA to QRX and called for other Asia. The JA's all held their fire (wish the
same could be said of certain EU types) which allowed me to dig out BV1EK for a
new mult.
* Shortly before that BD7BM fought thru the JA wall on 15 and we each gave the
other a new mult and in my case a much needed Zone 24.
* Breaking thru the pileup to score Zone 22 (VU2RCT) on 15m Saturday morning
here.
* Working UT5EKF/MM (Zone 36) off the coast of Angola.
* A >4 hour run on 21343 in the closing hours of the contest. That well
just never seemed to run dry.
As always a big thanks to Andre (DL1AS/V31DL) for the use of his fine station
and to his XYL Monika who always makes me welcome at Maya Hill Lodge. I hope to
be back in Feb 2018 for WPX RTTY, perhaps with another op for a M/S entry and
then ARRL SSB DX and CQ WPX
SSB in March.
73,
Victor V31VP (WB0TEV)
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