CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2020
Call: W8LVN
Operator(s): W8LVN
Station: W8LVN
Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires
QTH: IL
Operating Time (hrs): 29
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 14
80: 176
40: 320
20: 288
15: 61
10: 5
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Total: 864 Prefixes = 331 Total Score = 422,025
Club:
Comments:
Been a long time since I ran this contest. Maybe it was from N9RV back in
Indiana.
In fact, I have been mostly off the air for many years and am now just
rebuilding the station. I did get in a little time on the 160 and SS, but
those were my very compromise antennas. They were of the "dancing
elephant"
variety--it isn't so much about how well the elephant dances as whether
it can dance at all
So now I have dipoles for 160 (don't tell Pat), 80, 40 and 20. The
20 is a sloper as I am blessed with too many trees here on the new
lot.
I set as a goal to work the full 36 hours, and see where the totals
came out. I was very sluggish for the first 8 hours or so, which certainly
cost me in the totals. I decided to just go for QSO totals and let
the mults and points fall where they may.
My CW was a bit rusty, as I had trouble copying cut serial numbers
at 40 wpm. Never did get that straightened out. But operationally
I improved my code speed by a bunch.
Some highlights: Working VK6LW on 40 meters the second morning; getting
some runs going with 100 watts and dipoles; working a bunch of SMC. And
some very weird calls like NR7DX. Also, working a fair amount on 15,
with a finding a multiplier on 160 of VY2ZM. That is very near France,
as you may know.
I didn't manage on/off times very well, and as a result lost a fair
amount of time. But I was in the chair for the rest of the time.
And I am very happy with the K3S as it is seriously good at pulling
apart CW signals.
Thanks for all the Qs!
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