CQ WPX CW SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 29-May-99, 30-May-99
Callsign Used : LA8W
Operators : LA4DCA, LA8SDA & LA9HW
Category : MS
Default Exchange : 599#
Team/Club : Lima Alfa Contest Club
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes
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80CW 135 134 292 18
40CW 444 438 1233 92
20CW 1133 1103 2303 376
15CW 1103 1073 2719 318
10CW 5 5 5 1
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Totals 2820 2753 6552 805
Final Score = 5274360 points.
Only a semi-serious effort from us this time. It started off as a serious
effort to break the old LA M/S record at 3,6 mill points (it is our own!).
We all met at the QTH early Friday afternoon to get rigs, computers and
antennas work properly. After fixing some SWR problems with the main
antenna (KT34XA) we started to erect a second beam (TH5), but soon found
that the new rotor was too wide for the mast's top section! So we gave it
up. With only one beam up, we found it hard to run two rigs, and just
skipped it. Used the weekend to do as much as we could with one rig, and
used spare time to plan for this year's main event: CQ WW CW in November.
The contest started of quite slow, rates around 50/60 qso's an hour.
Propagation forecast wasn't too encouraging, with three Coronal Mass
Ejection's expected to hit the Earth during Saturday. The biggest surprise
for the weekend was learning that the K-index was quite low, Boulder said 2
in average. That for sure was not the case for us here in the Auroral
Zone!!! Even though the bands sounded good, with lots of DX, we realized
heavy signal degrations during times. Condx into US and especially Japan
was quite good, but due to the signal degrations we could hardly keep any
frequency. All the time we lost it to a southern European, which obviously
had better condx.
During the whole weekend, the rate meter just passed 100 a few times, but
on the other hand it seemed quite stable. We ended up with an average of 57
q's an hour, and variation was very small. In the same way as we get more
K's than JA's in CQ WW, it is the opposite with summer condx - JA's coming
in almost around the clock on 20m, and also into late afternoon on 15m.
Most enjoyable contest, and really looking forward to CQ WW! And yes, we
ended up with a new LA record.
73 Jan/LA9HW - Olav/LA8SDA - Bjorn/LA4DCA
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