CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K3TN
Operator(s): K3TN
Station: K3TN
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 17
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 27 7 16
80: 195 15 75
40: 237 27 78
20: 292 27 97
15: 184 23 89
10: 13 7 10
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Total: 948 102 365 Total Score = 1,241,753
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
This was a Skimmer/Reverse Beacon network driven effort with a wimpy station -
Windom OCF dipole at 45' for 10-80 and a 51' T for 160, with a K3 and a 400w
amp and a TS-850 with a 1KW amp.
I decided to go assisted, using the Reverse Beacon skimmer network instead of
the cluster system - wow, was that fun! I wasn't planning on operating much,
but conditions were so good and my RBN-driven S&P rates were so high that I got
sucked in. I usually try to run whenever possible, but in CQ WW even when I can
hold a frequency the rate is usually at best in the 60s for an hour. S&Ping
with the RBN and N1MM I could easily hold last 100 QSO rates (not that 10 QSO
meter) in the 90s. It almost felt like running - just hitting CTRL-UP instead
of F1.
While there were many busted callsigns in the RBN output, it was way less than
the typical cluster error rate and many putouts came before the cluster swarm
arrived. I had one freeze at about 1900 on Saturday but total reliability other
than that. Conditions were phenomenal Saturday am, I missed most of Sunday am
but 15 was open way early even for my low Windom.
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