CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2019
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SOSB15 LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 14.1
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15: 417 23 94
10:
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Total: 417 23 94 Total Score = 138,060
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
life has been really busy lately, so decided to do a single band. It still was
tiring at times. 20 sounded dead at the starting bell, the solar storm was still
taking its toll. 2-3 days before the WW, 15 was fabulous to EU, was called by
S9+ LY2, OH, R1DA/M, and a British mobile running 5W who was S9. Contest
conditions were never nearly so good and basically only the Mediterranean area
and just north was workable Saturday. Sunday was full of promise, EU appearing
early only to fade down quickly. Then around 1413Z signals from more than just
south EU vastly improved. I had a good run going working 5 in a minute at 1422Z,
3 or 4 per minute until 1428Z when again the more northerly signals like G, DL,
and SP rapidly faded down again. I never worked the eastern Baltic Sea
countries, not even Ukraine. I did squeeze in one Norwegian. Just before the
path closed to UB7K, I found him for a double mult.
Overall, things went pretty well. The only mult I could not work was A6. The
number of large pile ups was down from past years; most were pretty easy to
break.
I think I worked most all of what was workable in EU from here; 9H6A was heard
calling a station. I did have bad line noise all Sunday afternoon and signals to
the south were down early afternoon to boot. At 1940Z I heard a station calling
OH0 (SA station on same freq), turned the beam and worked him. Then, a few
minutes later, I heard OG6 calling CQ nearly zero beat with a loud FS station.
Apparently the OH's had no prop to the Caribbean and farther south, but could
work the USA.
Condx to the Pacific were dreadful, only worked VP6R and weak KH6's and weak
ZM4.
Thanks for the QSO's and digging me out. Next year should be better.
73, Jeff N8II
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