WAE DX Contest, CW
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 2:05
Summary:
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
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80:
40: 74 67 81
20: 74 73 42
15:
10:
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Total: 148 140 123 Total Score = 35,424
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
Just 2 hours. 20m 1 hour Sunday morning, and 40m, 1 hour Sunday suppertime/early
evening.
I really like this contest and I especially like the FB ops that are in EU and
that can copy CW (better than I can).
N1MM+ makes this very very easy. (K1LT are you reading this?) and the team
tweaks it a little every year for WAE to make an already great product even
better.
40m was very bizarre. I was being hearing in EU quite loud (for the Sun over the
Atlantic) and the RBN had me at 20-45dB, so I thought I'd run.
Most EU callers were 529-559 with the odd "big gun" at 5NN. OK, no
problem. I am running 750w and a 4-square on 40m and the RBN hears me. The
100w guys in EU aren't loud, but I can copy a serial number from them...bring it
on.
For most of the hour I was on, I estimate every 4th or 5th caller could not copy
my serial # even after repeated attempts. (I am talking having sent it up to 20
times here.) Eventually I had no choice but to move on.
At first I thought it maybe was just some click happy cluster users calling
everything in their band map, but then I began to wonder.
I still can't explain it. I've been around radio for 40 yrs and still can't
recall a time when every 4th or 5th guy called me, but then couldn't copy what I
was sending. Maybe EU QRM? Maybe Multipath, Maybe ghost meteors from the
Perseids messing with the EU fellas heads? I dunno. One guy did say "QSB
QSB" and I never heard any QRM from or EU. Still shaking my head.
OK, that's all from the peanut gallery. Hard to comment much having only put in
a scrawny 2 hours. Wish it was more, but with short summers here in VE9, I had
lots to keep me busy.
dit dit!
Radio 1 IC-7410
Antennas for Radio 1 include, but not limited to:
10m - Bent/twisted A3S on my shed ~24\\\'
15m - K3LR/K1WA (parasitic) 5el array (partially working--ice storm)
20m - Wire/Aluminum 4-square of inverted L\\\'s (Comtek)
40m - Wire 4-square in the trees (Comtek)
80m - Wire 4-square of Inverted L\\\'s in the trees (Comtek)
160m - Wire 2 element array of Inverted L\\\'s in the trees (Comtek)*currently
only 1 element in service due to some season known locally as winter and all
the wrath it brings.
Radio 2 - IC-7410 (not used!!!)
Antenna for Radio 2 is a modified ZS6BKW with an added 15m inverted Vee.
80m-6m contest bands, no 160m
N1MM+, CM-500 Mic, N3ZN paddle, SO2R+ box.
(small 550w amps used for some contests)
Thanks for the Q\\\'s
CU (all of a sudden) in the next one.
dit dit
Mike in NB, VE9AA
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