CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2020
Call: KU6W
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: California
Operating Time (hrs): 29
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 213
40: 418
20: 608
15: 113
10: 15
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Total: 1367 Prefixes = 665 Total Score = 177,023
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Result is less than I had hoped, for several reasons. Strategy was BIC Friday
night until rate dropped, skip the Saturday morning EU, BIC until midnight
Saturday, BIC again Sunday morning until the end. All was per plan until I slept
through the alarm Sunday morning.
SteppIR is still out of service, needs to come down for repair (probably two new
motors), so it was low monobanders, which don't get over the ridge to EU nearly
as well. They're also closer to a neighbor's new solar farm, so noisier than the
SteppIR was.
Next factor was the very high static QRN on 80, and that solar farm noise on 20
and 15, made it hard for my 78-year old ears to copy weak signals through it
well enough to do SO2R (I mentally need the radios spread left and right to keep
track of what I'm doing). The result was very little SO2R.
And the last factor -- the brain seems not to work as well as it used to. Like
the man said, old age ain't for sissies!
One thing that has always bugged me is EU ops sending at 40 wpm and not slowing
down when they hear Arctic flutter on my signal. Is their ego so large that they
don't believe that their signal could be affected in the same way? Or is it just
ignorance?
On the positive side, all the rest of the station worked fine. Thanks for all
the Qs!
73, Jim K9YC KU6W
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