CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST 1995
Call: W9SZ Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator Assisted
Zone: 04
Operating time: 7 Hours
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 0 0 0.00 0 0
80 51 135 2.65 12 29
40 58 153 2.64 18 44
20 43 118 2.74 17 38
15 17 44 2.59 11 15
10 0 0 0.00 0 0
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Totals 169 450 2.66 58 126 => 82,800
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
Club Affiliation: SMC
Comments: This was a very un-serious effort, I mainly wanted to play
with the new 80-meter antenna I just put up (dipole) - it seems to
work just fine and I worked 10 new countries on that band in the
contest! Conditions were excellent for this point in the solar cycle.
In the time I had to operate I had fun and I hope I helped a few people
with some QSOs!
73, Zack W9SZ
>From force12e@lightlink.com (Natan) Mon Nov 27 20:17:54 1995
From: force12e@lightlink.com (Natan) (Natan)
Subject: W6XR/2 CQWW CW
Message-ID: <199511271519.KAA13344@light.lightlink.com>
Dear Friends,
This weekend I had the pleasure of having a guest operator
in Ithaca to do the CQWW. Bob, N6TV came from the Bay Area
in Ca. to operate his first East Coast contest.
Unfortunatly, I have little to say about his experience
since he is still sleeping after working 46 out of 48 hours.
Some of his comments that he mumbled afterwards were
amusing:
"It sure is crowded on 80 and 40 .......Signals from Europe
are sure loud!.....Where are the JA's?"
I think Bob did a tremdous job for just stepping into a
relativly new station that really is not in the most
geographicaly advantaged area. We did have other problems
too, as the TS950 died just before the contest and Bob had
to use the new Kenwood 870....The 870 has the most
incredible filters, but the front end needs work! Of
course, not being able to use the beverages or EWE receiving
antennas really put the 870 to the test and unfortunately,
in my opinion, it could have done better handling the strong
signals. A strong signal forced Bob to put in all the
attenuation possible and AIP and it stlll had artifacts that
interfered wtih the needed signal. Right now, the 950 is a
better radio as the front end handles adjacent channel much
better.
Propogation was not that good and the 10 meter score
certainly indicates that signals were avoiding the Ithaca
area once again. The performance on 160 was way down
because you are listening on a vertical antenna and you
simply don't hear things! The EWE was missed!
Totals follow:
160 30 10 18
80 377 19 69
40 728 32 100
20 845 22 98
15 528 25 85
10 8 3 3
Totals 2516 Qs, 122 Zs, 373 Cs for 3,528,360
SO, high power, not assisted, one radio only, no packet
Rig....TS870 and Alpha 86
CT
Antennas,
160 -- vertical/groundplane
80 -- rotatable dipole at 75'
40 -- 2 element yagi at 85'
20/15/10 2 ea. stacked C3s at 75 and 45
South...C3s at 50'
Natan , W6XR/2
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