CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2020
Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J
Class: SO(A)SB40 LP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires
QTH: Watham, MA
Operating Time (hrs): 16:23
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40: 177
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 177 Prefixes = 119 Total Score = 38,199
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Solar stats:
0200z Sat 2020-03-28
90-DAY SSN = 2
SSN = 0
SFI = 69
Kp = 0
1200z Sun 2020-03-29:
SSN = 0
SFI = 69
Kp = 2
This was another one of my casual, laid back, relaxed fit, slacker contest
efforts. I find myself doing more and more of them. Back in Cycle 24 I was a lot
more hard-working but that was 10 years ago and in the intervening 10 years I
aged 10 years. (I think the math is correct)
I don't much care for this aging thing, but I am comforted by the old adage:
"Old age isn't a death sentence. Except at the end."
Since I don't do many phone contests, they are kind of a novelty. It's
interesting to see the audio envelope of various stations in the 6500's
panadapter. Everyone has their own audio settings. Some are wide and some
narrow, some flat, others with peaks at various places. Some sound better than
others, with crisp, clear audio, while others are mushed out. Some of that is
due to individual voices. I myself don't have a great voice for phone, which is
why God made FT8. Or was that Joe, His prophet?
I played at being a human skimmer and did a lot of spotting, proud I could do
something that a machine can't (so far). Call me John Henry. Assisted phone
contests are a hybrid of Assisted and Unassisted since phone spotting is rather
spotty. Having a panadapter and a bandmap are essential tools.
I followed some of my friends on the Online Scoreboard. One amusing thing was
when I pulled up the scoreboard rate charts, a Google translate popup asked me
if I wanted it to translate the page from Corsican. Not really. It's all
graphics and I'm operating under VFR.
Thanks for the QSOs.
73,
Ken, AB1J
Flex 6500
N1MM Logger+
40m outdoor 66' end-fed skinny stealth wire
LoTW eQSL ClubLog
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