WB0O ARRL DX CW SO/AB/HP
B Q M
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160 18 15 INV-L
80 100 48 ELEVATED 4-SQUARE
40 116 53 ELEVATED 4-SQUARE
20 345 65
15 60 30 TH7@50',Force 12 DXer @ 50'
10 4 4 (QTH IS ON A 400' HILL)
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643 215 = 414,735
COMMENTS:
No matter where you live, you had better condx than
here in ND. Aurora for 6 nights in a row really hurt.
For hours at a time there was nobody to work, no EU
or JA, and a bunch of dupe LU/6Y/P4/KP on 15 or 20.
Sort of like the Uzbekistan Howdy Days 10M Roundup.
160M: An amazing band. Even with aurora, I got a few
EU. It was like my own personal opening, EU
calling CQ with NO takers!
80M: Each Q was a struggle. Weak, watery signals that
faded to nothing by 0500Z each night. Minimal
JA openings.
40M: Spent the whole weekend getting CQ'd in my face.
20M: At 1700Z on Saturday I had a total of 30 20M Q's.
I sat and listened to K3LR running EU and couldn't
hear a peep out of 99% of the stations he was
running.
15M: A few token EU's and JA's
10M: A micro opening to P40W, PJ9C.
The worst part is that the bands will undoubtedly
bounce back by Tuesday, and so another CW DX contest
has gone down the drain! I have 80 acres of hay field
right next to the house, and contests like this remind
me why I SHOULDN'T waste money on bigger antennas.
73 BILL WB0O in North Dakota
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