CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K4EA
Operator(s): K4EA
Station: K4EA
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 19 6 12
80: 87 17 52
40: 166 28 92
20: 366 29 107
15: 270 33 114
10: 154 21 60
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Total: 1062 134 437 Total Score = 1,559,942
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Initially, I had planned to do SB15. But in the weeks before the contest, power
line noise has been very bad (s7 to Europe S5 to East Asia and pacific on 15M).
The "man" from Georgia power has been very conscientious and has spent many,
many hours trying to find the multiple noise sources that have been plaguing my
for many years. The good news is that in the week prior to the contest, he
found several likely suspects. The bad news was that fixing them before the
contest was not going to happen. (As of this writing the repairs have yet to
be done.)
So, I decided to do SOAB(A) so I wouldn't be too bored even though my only 20M
antenna is a wire beam fixed to Europe. 15M was hot on Saturday, but my very
high noise level precluded trying to run. 10M was I nice surprise. Still, I
was frustrated to see the NE stations were working into Eu for almost two hours
before it opened up down here in north Georgia. This was obviously an Es
opening. As the noise was only S3 on 10M I did try to run there and had some
success. On Sunday, 20M was a zoo. There was no such thing as a "clear"
frequency. Almost everywhere I listened there was more than one station
calling "CQ". I finally just picked a spot and worked as many as I could. I
still had a blast even though my score was disappointing.
Next stop, CQWW CW (yeah!)
Neal, K4EA
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