VO1MP Gus Samuelson
St. Phillips Newfoundland
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST 1998
Call: VO1MP Country: Canada
Mode: CW Category: SO/AB/HP/UNASSISTED
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 0 0 0.00 0 0 (NO ANT )
80 350 880 2.51 16 53
40 514 1377 2.68 18 63
20 657 1790 2.72 25 76
15 608 1529 2.51 24 73
10 540 1426 2.64 18 63
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Totals 2669 7002 2.62 101 328 => 3,003,858
All reports sent were 599 5.
Operating time about 35 hours. A Relatively low power
- high power operation about 300 watts , Computer
keyboard wanted to lock up at anything above that.
Had to resort to keyer on 80 meters ( how did we ever do that ? )
computer would lock completely.
Mistakes :
Should have gone striclty low power ,score would probably
have only suffered minimally.
slept nearly 6 hours first night-
5 hours on second night
Took down 15 M monobander in favour of
replacing with tribander to allow 10 meters , intended
to put 15 meter antenna at higher location on hill
- wx didn't co-operate. Tribander sucked on 15.
204 still only 3 1/2 elements , should have repaired
that months ago !! absolutely no front to back.
My Peanut whistle got blown off my run freq
by hired guns at multi- multis several times.
They may have new calls but they still have old habits.
Best hour - 155 - best last 10 over 290.
Worked a few US guys on 5 bands some of whom missed
me on SS for a sweep ... go figure !!
No great dx called Asia far east still scarce here,
loads of Asiatic Russia I must have been on wrong
band at right time ...
very difficult to resist that one and half hour
propagation advantage to Europe , in favour of staying
on a band where the q rate is low but the mults are possible
I guess that's where the second radio really plays.
Remove 36 percent of QSO s and score would change dramatically , although
there are lots of zero point Canadians there also.
Continent Statistics
VO1MP Single Operator 29 Nov 1998 2359z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 0 164 161 179 275 182 961 36.0
South America 0 3 3 11 11 11 39 1.5
Europe 0 176 340 426 299 338 1579 59.2
Asia 0 3 5 32 15 3 58 2.2
Africa 0 3 1 7 5 5 21 0.8
Oceania 0 1 4 2 3 1 11 0.4
Oh well , hope wx improves winter repaired antennas play better
every northerner knows that . 73 cu y'all next one.
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