CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: HA3LN
Operator(s): HA3LN
Station: HA3LN
Class: SO(A)SB20 HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20: 2168 36 134
15:
10:
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Total: 2168 36 134 Total Score = 668,610
Club:
Comments:
...and this is the reason why I hate and love SSB in the same time.
This was the most tiring contest ever taken part even though the 48
hours gone fast. The noise and the QRM made real headache by the end
but this level of activity can be reached only on SSB.
My last WW-SSB was in 2016 and the difference could been sliced with
knife in propagation and the ease of operation. Each new zones
literally needed to be fought and despite I heard (or rather saw the
new doubles) all 40 zones could not get through to 6, 7, 10 and 12
via the pile-ups. On Sun the QRM was on extreme level with no clear
running spot and even the strong NA signals needed to be digged and
get the calls repeated. Apologies to the callers and thanks for the
persistent repetitions. When I lost the running freq it took n x 10
minutes to find another one slowing significantly down the QSO revenue
generation. There was an unusual opening towards to the East on both
days from 00UT which resulted a bunch of far Eastern contacts very
early, fact the band was closed to West completely.
Funny (rather sad) moment of the contest… I camped down on 14112
@08UT and had a fairly good run to AS. Around 12UT I decided to turn
toward NA as the sun started to enable that part of the globe as well.
The freq was clear the spots were there but around 14UT it became
suspicious that only VE’s are calling from NA. Unfortunately it took
almost 2 hours CQing in the wrong segment to figure out that no USA
stations are below 14150. Started to check the bandmap for USA
callsigns and as I know K3LR always takes the first KHz of the band
segments I knew I made huge mistake with this spot. I moved higher on
the band and voilà the US stream started immediately. I know this is
pathetic after all but I have not heard about this restriction yet.
Not a single allocation table I found for region 2 which represents
this. The long story short, …lesson learnt.
Signed up to the cqcontest.net online service for the first time.
Beside the fun factor it was pretty instructive as well. I heard/read
many times the ground rule "if you don't run you lose" but now I saw
it with my own eyes sometime in unbelievably intensive manner.
Happened couple of occasions I was very proud of myself seeing the
closing gap between the next-up stn but the sad point came when I
realized that only longer update periods were used at the other stn...
:-D
On Sat @07 UT I found out the rotator stopped working. There was a
mechanical failure at the gearbox. I lost an entire hour but the
blessing in disguise I could fix it and could continue the show.
Conclusion: 160m SSB? No way!
Thanks for the contacts.
73!
Csaba HA3LN
http://ha3ln.hu/
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