CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: CT3NT
Operator(s): CT1BOH
Station: CQ9K
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Santo da Serra
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 396 15 60
80: 1115 27 83
40: 1819 32 103
20: 1547 35 101
15: 1114 29 101
10: 572 22 72
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Total: 6563 160 520 Total Score = 13,289,920
Club: Madeira Team
Comments:
Thanks to my lovely wife Lara that understands and support my contesting
activities.
Thanks to Madeira Team â?? CT3BD, CT3DL, CT3DZ, CT3EE, CT3EN, CT3IA, CT3KU and
CT3KY - without them this operation would not be possible.
Thanks to Win-test team http://www.win-test.com (F5MZN and F6FVY) for
implementing such a wonderful program. From advanced SO2R, to automation and
contest statistics information, Win-Test Win-test is absolutely the #1
contesting software, and you are loosing if you are not using it.
This was my CQWW #34 in a row http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh/operations.htm
Contrary to last year, the weather was very good up the mountain. No wind, no
rain, and a nice temperature helped set-up the station with relative comfort in
three days. But Friday I experienced the worst ever wind conditions of my life.
For many moments in the afternoon, I thought the antennas and the towers would
collapse. Luckily there was just minor damage: The 2el 80 meters wire inverted
V fixed to Europe lost one leg in the reflector element, one of the two 80
meter phased verticals lost one of the two elevated radials and all the rotary
beams moved from their original positions in the rotor/mast.
Thanks to Madeira Team guys, the vertical was fixed the hour before the
contest, and the wire inverted V beam and the correct antennas/rotors positions
were fixed Saturday afternoon.
With the brute wind force and noise, plus the presence of forest guard rangers
that sought protection in the house I did not sleep at all during Friday. So it
was no surprise that half way the contest around 00Z Sunday I was very tired and
sleepy, at around 09z Sunday I had to stop doing SO2R to save energy and at
around 16z Sunday I mentally blocked and was not able to log QSOs. I called my
wife on the cell phone, and told her I could not log the calls I was hearing.
Thanks to her advice (she is a clinical Psychologist) I somehow managed to
compose myself and finish the contest at a lower but steady rate.
In the end contesting is about will â?? if you have the will to do it you will
do it!
And just like any nice story has a nice ending, by 23:55 with 159 zones and 519
countries, while on 80 meters, I remember thinking how do I get a double mult
at this time of the contest, to finish up nicely â?? guess what?! by 23:58z
VQ9JC calls in for a double mult, asks for my call, and I heard someone
transmitting dit dit dit dit, dit dit in the background â?? I had tears in my
eyes! This is what the magic of contesting is all about!
73
José Nunes
CONTEST - CT1BOH, CT3NT
http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh
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