ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: JA1BPA
Operator(s): JA1BPA
Station: JA1BPA
Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: Chiba
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 692 56 Total Score = 116,256
Club: University of Tokyo Contest Club
Comments:
This is my 3rd consecutive year in this contest as SOSB/10mb,
and the propagation was certainly the best!
We had the record breaking amount of snow in Tokyo area on Friday,
which closed the access road to the usual JG1ZUY contest station.
Instead, I visited my own small shack where it was rain-storming.
[SATURDAY (LOCAL TIME)]
As the contest started at 00UTC on Saturday, the wind was gusting
up to 80mph, and I obviously could not crank up the tower or turn
my antennas. I could still work several big guns from New England
before the band closed around 03UTC.
I managed to work several stations via long path between 11~13UTC
including VY2ZM and KI1G for new multipliers, but stations were
mostly working with Europeans.
[SUNDAY (LOCAL TIME)]
The band started to open at 21UTC around our sunrise. This was a
stable opening with all areas of the US heard very strong. Later in
the morning, there was a weird auroral opening to VE1, VE2, VE9 area
around 01~02 UTC, with VA2EW heard CQing with genuine S=9. VE9AA
thankfully called for a new multiplier, but nobody from VE1 or VO1.
The band was decently open until 04UTC, but people seemed to have
assumed that it was closed. The propagation was really good, but
there were not sufficient number of stations to sustain a good run.
In the local evening, there was no real opening via long path.
I could hear several, but Europeans who were calling them were
much stronger this time. The propagation was deteriorating...
[MONDAY (LOCAL TIME)]
As I had been afraid, at our sunrise (21:30UTC), US stations were
weakly heard from the path skewed to the south (via Hawaii). This
was certainly a bad sign. The path got back to normal after 22UTC
(more than half an hour later than the previous day), but signals
were weaker. I could only work about 120 stations, mostly from
the West Coast during 2.5 hours before the end of the contest.
With the solar cycle nearing its peak, this was probably the
best that I could achieve on 10mb before the next cycle.
I really enjoyed the great opening, but wish there had been
more US stations to work with.
Thank you all for the QSOs and see you all again at RDXC.
Best 73,
Icko, JA1BPA
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