CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80: 43 4 3
40: 167 12 13
20: 779 23 70
15: 211 14 35
10:
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Total: 1200 53 121 Total Score = 451,008
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Like CQWW RTTY a month ago, the bands were hotter than expected. Not up to
solarmax standards but working Europe on 15M at this point felt pretty good.
Hoping for similar a month from now for the CW leg.
Put in 21 hours -- more than expected after a very, very poor performance on
opening night. Surprisingly, Saturday and Sunday were tons 'o fun here, all
things considered. It was still the worst outing since 2009, but some nice
double-mults -- TR6 and JT5 stand out -- and some activity on 15M made it feel
good anyway.
As I predicted (pretty safely) in the pre-contest podcast last week, 15M surely
made the difference in competitive scores from out west. Those who found any
openings on 10M as well will do even better, but I didn't hear a peep up there
any time I listened around.
Had a real blast running stations on 20M in the final two hours, but the pace
was so frantic I stepped away with half an hour left, once I hit 1,200 Qs for a
nice round number to finish with. With multipliers down so much for me this
year, I wasn't going to catch any high-watermark scores from the past several
years.
Weaknesses to address next spring: 40M with a rotary dipole and a half-assed
fixed-direction 2-el quad in the pine trees doesn't cut it for working Europe
from here. Heard too many much-needed S9+20 zone 14, 15, 16 and 20 stations who
didn't even pause when I called. More 40M elements ought to solve that.
The 80M triangle array of verticals worked as well as can be expected for a
system tuned for the CW end of the band. It's rather compromized above 3.700
Mhz. Never got the elevated radials upgraded this summer, and they're far from
ideal. Another spring project.
Thanks to all who got on for a bunch or a few Qs. Those 2-pointers across the
border make this one a lot of fun.
Now, bring on Sweeps!
-- Bud VA7ST
zone.va7st.ca
(Zone Zero contest diary podcast)
2017: 1200 53 121 451,008 SFI= 75 A= 4 K=0
2016: 839 51 106 277,890 SFI= 76 A=26 K=4
2015: 1701 96 247 1,337,357 SFI=106 A=10 K=1
2014: 1562 87 176 907,876 SFI=217 A=11 K=2
2013: 1691 115 277 1,690,304 SFI=165 A= 2 K=1
2012: 1794 101 255 1,550,736 SFI=131 A= 4 K=1
2011: 1604 105 243 1,307,088 SFI=126 A= 4 K=2
2010: 1156 82 158 637,440 SFI= 86 A= 4 K=1
2009: 1030 61 130 434,525 SFI= 74 A=17 K=4
2008: 1080 73 154 559,101 SFI= 68 A= 1 K=0
2007: 349 54 97 123,367 SFI= 67 A=14 K=4
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