CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: NS3T
Operator(s): NS3T
Station: NS3T
Class: SOSB/40 LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
------------------------------
160:
80:
40: 201 21 80
20:
15:
10:
------------------------------
Total: 201 21 80 Total Score = 52,263
Club:
Comments:
My goal was pretty simple - beat the 3-land record for this contest
in single-op-40 meter (low power) and if my score holds, I did just that!
But it was anything but easy.
I started fine with 34 S&P QSO's in the first hour. But by around
0130, the Europeans went away, and never came back for my inverted
vees until around 0700. It became a real slugfest just to get a
few contacts in the log each hour almost the rest of the contest.
I stayed with it though and was rewarded with some great contacts
in the wee hours on both nights. On Saturday morning, I got
ZL6QH and a few JA's in the log with the sun already up here.
The second night was marked by getting thru a pileup for OY1CT.
With my simple inverted vees, all I could do was S&P, and my
weak signal meant some missed chances for zones and countries.
I clearly heard zones 12, 19, 27, 29, 30 and 36 several times
on 40 meters, but I just couldn't break thru. And I never
could find KL7 and zone one. Oh well.
I have to thank all of the VE's who helped my cause - of my just
over 200 contacts, 30 of them were from Canadian hams! Plus,
my only KH6 was from a VA7 who was in Hawaii.
I'm no expert, but conditions seemed a bit suspect at times,
especially on night one. Of course, some big antennas might
help avoid all the repeats for stations trying to dig my
signal out of the noise. I really like the way my NS3T call
sounds in CW - unfortunately, it seems to be easily read as
NN3T, NI3T, NH3T, NS3A, NS3D, NS2T and NS4T.
Jamie NS3T
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
|