On Mon,9/14/2015 2:04 PM, Braco OE1EMS wrote:
Just take a look into statistic and you will see
The choice of contests seems to be quite poor. From NorCal, I had
roughly 90 minutes opening to Germany during WAG. K6XX, a superb
operator with a great antenna farm on a mountaintop 70 miles S of San
Francisco, posted this today about WAE SSB:
= = = = = = =
(104 Q + 104 QTC) x 56 DX = 27,040 points. 27 Hours. SOHP.
This was the most miserable contest I've suffered through. Propagation
started out poor, improved marginally, then worsened again. Activity was
light--both in signal strength and in numbers of stations on the air.
Packet was "free", yet the screen rarely showed more than a couple of
non-dupes, audible or otherwise.
How bad was it? After 5 1/2 hours, there were SEVEN stations logged. The
best hour was a blazing 11. Overall rate was under 4/hr. Unlike Low
Power Mike at W6YX, _most_ stations called came right back to me. My
limitation was hearing the Europeans above the summer static. I stuck
with it, hoping (or fearing) that the bands would suddenly open for an
hour or so and the rest of the West Coast would capitalize on this
opening. With so few Qs logged, it wouldn't take long to double one's
score! The boys further north may have benefited from slightly better
conditions, but it doesn't seem that any of us caught a dramatic opening.
After this weekend, I'm dreaming of raising hogs and neglecting my
health so I will have something to discuss on 75m every evening. Or
something like that...
OPERATING TIME: 27:30:00
CQ COUNTER: 110 and then some...
RUN/SEARCH: 7/97 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 78
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.41.1 http://www.tr4w.net
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
40SSB 27 27 27 18
20SSB 69 69 69 32
15SSB 8 8 8 6
Totals 104 104 104 56
Final Score = 27,040 points.
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