CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 8 3 1
80: 208 12 17
40: 403 19 50
20: 576 29 66
15: 648 25 66
10: 516 25 64
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Total: 2359 113 264 Total Score = 2,099,136
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
* Unassisted -- FT-2000 + SB221 + N1MM Logger
* 3 ele. SteppIR at 27' (47' Sunday)
* 40M SteppIR dipole at 27'
* 2-element 40M diamond quad, apex 50'
* 3 x 80M elevated verticals (6 directions)
* 1 x 160M inverted-L
Total Qs: 2372 including dupes.
No complaints here -- the bands were mostly in great shape, antennas played
nicely, and I had a good night's sleep Saturday night.
Set out to beat my previous best from 2012, and managed that by a wide margin.
Surprising how equal the three high bands were here; usually 20M or 15M rises
above the others, but this weekend it was hard to choose where to spend my
time. Great problem to have -- but they won't be like that for much longer.
The only slight lowlight was 40M which didn't produce European contacts and
countries like it did in the past two years.
Fell about 100 Qs short of last year on 80M, but I also went to bed at 11 p.m
local (0700z) on Saturday night instead of working late on what seemed to be a
rather flat band. Might have had something to do with the US long weekend.
Still, Friday night was great on 80M -- was fun running JAs while it lasted.
Had many 100-plus hours, fought off a few frequency hijackings, and worked a
few rare countries (rare from BC, at least). I pushed quite hard during the
hours I was on, because solarmax only rolls around every so often -- I don't
know if we're past it yet, but things won't hold up for much longer. Must enjoy
it while we can.
I will remember this contest for a long time. Hope I get to play in a few more
like this one.
-- Bud VA7ST
QSOs Ctry Zones Score
2013: 2,372 264 113 2,099,136 HP 34 hrs
2013: 2,075 246 118 1,798,160 HP 31 hrs
2012: 2,365 249 104 1,888,550 HP 36 hrs
2011: 2,114 248 109 1,725,024 HP 32 hrs
2010: 1,721 180 92 1,033,056 HP 32 hrs
2009: 1,777 158 92 950,750 HP 31 hrs
2008: 1,580 129 71 670,600 HP 25 hrs
2007 1,470 129 69 615,582 HP 32 hrs
2006 1,476 163 78 775,297 35 hrs
2005 1,014 126 61 411,587
2004 1,421 146 79 697,500
2003 865 115 73 351,936
2002 675 147 63 313,740
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