CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: W6PH
Operator(s): W6PH
Station: W6PH/6
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Lone Pine, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 32
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 27 11 16
80: 93 20 37
40: 308 30 96
20: 490 32 105
15: 165 27 70
10: 21 8 10
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Total: 1104 128 334 Total Score = 1,375,374
Club:
Comments:
Equipment: TS-930S and LK-500ZB
Antennas: A3S @ 40ft (Rohn 25)
ATB-34 @ 50ft (temporary AB-577)
40-2CD @ 60ft (2nd temporary AB-577)
Inverted L (46ft up, 20 ft out)for 80m (base loaded for 160m)
My time was split 75% hunting and 25% CQing. The low bands were great. I
had an intermittent feedline problem with my 40-2CD on Friday night that
made it unusable after midnight. I spent a couple hours during the middle
of the day cranking the mast down to replace the feedline. It paid off as
40M was awesome. I couldn't quite get to 100 countries before I went to
20M which seemed to open much earlier on Sunday. I was surprised to find
15M open to southern Europe about an hour later with weak signals. I
checked 10M often but there were no signals (or beacons) audible much of
the time. Surprised to hear a KL7 working an LU and grabbed him (UP 1,
UP 1). The other surprise was ZD8R. Never heard a Zone 11. I heard a
friend (K7VF) up the valley on 15M and got him to QSY to 10M for a double
mult! During the last solar cycle low, the YCCC put out a band by band cookbook.
For 10M, K1KI penned one line: "If your 10M numbers are higher
than your 160M numbers, you don't have a 160M antenna" (paraphrased)
These contests are like fishing trips and car races. A fishing trip gets
you away from your job and your family for a stressfree weekend. It is
like a car race in that things may break during the contest and you have
to fix them and get back into the race as quickly as possible.
I will be operating as VP9/W6PH for both ARRL CW and Phone.
Kurt, W6PH (Yes, it is Zone 3)
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