ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SOUSB15 HP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 20:05
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15: 1111 108
10:
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Total: 1111 108 Total Score = 359,964
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
Everyone who likes radio contests, raise your hand !
-I liken single op to a lone guy fishing out of a boat in the middle of a large
lake
-Assisted (Unlimited) is a lot like shooting fish in a barrel.
-After June 2022 this next era (self spotting with social media, internet, cell
phones, skeds, live streams, Tik-Tok, Twitter feeds, asking to be spotted,
Ewetoob livestreams, and what-have-you) will be like fine dining at your
favorite restaurant where they bring you your smoked salmon on a cedar plank
right to your table.
I tried shooting fish in a barrel this weekend but you know what, I find that I
like being in a boat in the middle of a lake catching my own fish a lot more.
You wish to permit self-spotting? So be it. CW & RTTY has the RBN.
OK, let the SSB ops self spot via Telnet. Leave social media and all the rest of
the baloney out of it.
Radio should be radio.
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To be different, I chose 15m SB HP (Un) this weekend. The sunspots just weren't
there. Even Scandinavia was growly under a disturbed Auroral Zone.
Should've done 20m or all band. Sigh.
Condx marginally better on Sunday but of course, very slow as a single bander.
I worked only 1 or 2 QRPers on Sat and a few handfuls on Sunday.
Friday...a dozen Q's in the first hour, then band went bye-bye (no JA's)
Saturday evening, no JA's that were workable. Finished at 676Q's and 98DXCC's
Sunday morning made my end-goal 1111 Q's and 100 DXCC's and somewhere around
300k.pts I am happy with this small stations performance and actually, my own
performance to endure single digit hours for 4+ hours Sunday afternoon after EU
closed and until the JA's (workable, even!) arrived. That was the hardest 4
hours of the contest. Hard on the morale for a rate junkie.
Never could wrangle a Q with NH2DX, but Joel was working them and taking charge
of his pileup.
Exciting Q with VU2TMP under a EU pileup or two. Whew!
73 es CU (all of a sudden!) in the next one.
Mike VE9AA
Single IC-7410 & wire 4-square of dples on 15m
CU (all of a sudden!) in the next one.
Mike VE9AA \"NB\"
QZB=spread out, you\'re all Zero Beat !
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