A few things I noted during the contest this weekend while operating back in
Missouri (missery) at K4VX/0 using NS0Z for a callsign...
1) 36 hours really does suck! 30 hours made offtimes interesting, the
contest a bit more unique, and the east coast a little less advantageous.
2) After operating from Georgia for 5 years and going back to Missouri for
this contest a few notes on propagation comparing GA and MO...
10/15M: Much better in GA in almost every direction. JA's are even good,
just not for as long.
20M: Better in Missouri. Mostly due to propagation, but Lew has REALLY good
antennas for this band including a rhombic that is a killer antenna! Oh...
20M is much better in GA at the top of the cycle when we get a mid-night
opening to Europe that the guys up north (even W1) don't get. Since I've
been here it is the single best band opening we get. Mostly because we
aren't competing with the entire country... Just W4's and W5's.
40M: Better in GA by far. Signals are stronger, seem to work another tier
of stations. JA's in MO are nonexistant on this band. Good signals from the
few JA's that called.
3) Why was I called by so many US "contesters" on as many as 4 bands? I'll
exclude WZ1R, NQ4I or other multi's that were obviously not networked.
4) 2 radios only works if 2 bands are open. This was not the case the 2nd
day of this contest!
5) It is amazing how many so called "good ops" will just fire up a CQ
without asking QRL or anything.
6) You don't have to know the code to do well in a CW contest. Sunday
morning I came by one of my competitors and at 29 WPM I sent SLOW? He
responded SL0? 599 ####. Wonder what his unique percentages look like?
7) It was alot of fun operating with good friends. I knew before it started
it would be a good contest, regardless of score.
73 and thanks for the Q's
Bill
>From wz1r@chowda.com (Charlie Morrison) Thu Jun 2 03:37:58 1994
From: wz1r@chowda.com (Charlie Morrison) (Charlie Morrison)
Subject: WPX CW Scores 3.830
Message-ID: <9406012304419075@chowda.com>
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1994 CQ WPX CW Scores collected by WZ1R on 3830.
S/O No Packet
NR1E (W2SC) 2010 X 728 4.23 M CLOSE !
KF3P 2025 X 692 4.20 M @ W3LPL CLOSE !
K3ANS (KQ2M) 1869 X 668 4.18 M CLOSE !
K3ZO 1717 X 664 3.92 M
KM9P 2046 X 758 3.69 M @ NS0Z/0
KT3Y 1634 X 649 3.2 M
AA6MC 1267 X 534 1.965M
AC1O 1107 X 532 1.47 M
AB6FO 927 X 478 1.0 M L.P.
K1JKS .99 M
AA2PZ 807 X .738M
N4YDU 760 X 414 .602M L.P.
WA4PGM 567 X 386 .454M QRP
KA1CZF 377 X 290 .310M QRP
K3LR (WX3N) 72 X 57 .017M 40M
K2VV 1587 X 656 2.2 M 20M
W1WEF 1332 X 589 1.65 M 20M
WD8LLD 1291 X 568 1.58 M 20M
NI8L 949 X 455 1.0 M 20M
WR3G 501 X 313 .162M 15M @ K3LR
WD8AUB 363 X 236 .130M 15M
K3UA 134 X 110 .015M 10M @ K3LR
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M/S
AG6D 1647 X 617 2.85 M close !
WX3W 1706 X 649 2.82 M @ K9RS CLOSE !
XL2ZP 1539 X 578 2.6 M @ VE2ZP
6E2T 1532 X 462 2.48 M
WO1N 1094 X 558 1.45 M
WF1L .462M @ WE1B
M/M
WW2Y 3153 X 878 7.8 M @ N2RM 5 OPS
WZ1R 3232 X 902 6.9 M @ KY1H 10 OPS
WJ7R 1965 X 661 3.5 M @ W7RM 5 OPS
M/M M/M
WZ1R@KY1H WW2Y@N2RM
160 78 7
80 406 269
40 834 940
20 1432 1413
15 399 436
10 83 89
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3232 3153
WOW !
WIZ
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