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Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC 2018 - Area activity

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC 2018 - Area activity
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:32:13 -0700
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On Mon,9/14/2015 2:04 PM, Braco OE1EMS wrote:
Just take a look into statistic and you will see

The choice of contests seems to be quite poor. From NorCal, I had roughly 90 minutes opening to Germany during WAG. K6XX, a superb operator with a great antenna farm on a mountaintop 70 miles S of San Francisco, posted this today about WAE SSB:

=   =   =   =   =   =   =


(104 Q + 104 QTC) x  56 DX  = 27,040 points. 27 Hours. SOHP.

This was the most miserable contest I've suffered through. Propagation started out poor, improved marginally, then worsened again. Activity was light--both in signal strength and in numbers of stations on the air. Packet was "free", yet the screen rarely showed more than a couple of non-dupes, audible or otherwise.

How bad was it? After 5 1/2 hours, there were SEVEN stations logged. The best hour was a blazing 11. Overall rate was under 4/hr. Unlike Low Power Mike at W6YX, _most_ stations called came right back to me. My limitation was hearing the Europeans above the summer static. I stuck with it, hoping (or fearing) that the bands would suddenly open for an hour or so and the rest of the West Coast would capitalize on this opening. With so few Qs logged, it wouldn't take long to double one's score! The boys further north may have benefited from slightly better conditions, but it doesn't seem that any of us caught a dramatic opening.

After this weekend, I'm dreaming of raising hogs and neglecting my health so I will have something to discuss on 75m every evening. Or something like that...


        OPERATING TIME: 27:30:00
            CQ COUNTER: 110   and then some...
            RUN/SEARCH: 7/97 Qs
      UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 78

              SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.41.1 http://www.tr4w.net

  BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points Countries
  40SSB        27           27       27        18
  20SSB        69           69       69        32
  15SSB         8            8        8         6

 Totals       104          104      104        56

    Final Score = 27,040 points.
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