CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: CE4U
Operator(s): CE4USW
Station: CE4EBJ
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Talca, Chile.
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 1 1 1
80: 90 8 8
40: 42 13 13
20: 661 27 50
15: 1392 32 92
10: 1823 27 98
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Total: 4009 108 262 = 4,317,160
Club/Team: Southern Cross DX Group - SCDXG
Comments:
This was my first CQWW by myself. I spent two full weeks adjunsting the
monobanders and fixing the respective rotors (none working properly),
besides some minor details with coax lines (special TNX to CE4FXY/CE4Y).
And the result was better than expected.
I decided a LP entry for two reasons: I had faith in the antennas, which are
homemade, and I wanted to break the CE LP record, considering my first serious
attempt in this contest.
I started in 15m and rate was very good: 148 QSO in the first hour and 195 in
the next. My best band was 10m: 209 QSO in hour 23z on Saturday, and 205 in
hour 19z on Sunday. I reached 7 QSO/min several times. I could've continued
in this one but I had planned a minimum percentage's quota for each band.
20m was typical, like a war zone; it's difficult to get heard with 100 watts
there with all that QRM. I did almost nothing in 40m, maybe beacuse I went
there on Sunday only. 80m was great: I had an nice opening to US on Sunday and
made about 80 QSO, VE, VP5, PJ2 and ZL were in the run too. No antenna for
160m, but I heard W3LPL very clearly with 80m's dipole on Sunday morning, I
called several times but I guess my signal was not strong enough; I'll try
again next year.
I had a lot of fun on Sunday's afternoon since propagation was open to both NA
and EU, so I turned the antennas between them: OX. I had a nice pile-up working
both continents.
In general lines, I got more points on Saturday, but I made more QSO on Sunday.
Day 1: 1749 QSO / Day 2: 2260 QSO. I slept 4 and 2 hours, respectively.
I really tried to work everyone who called me. So thank you all. I hope to see
you again in CW version, eventhough I'm not very fast (25 ppm) :-)
Antennas: 5el for 28 MHz @ 20m high
4el for 21 MHz @ 20m high
3el for 14 MHz @ 18m high
1 dipole for 7 MHz @ 18m high
1 dipole for 3.5 MHz @ 15m high
Rigs: TS-430S trasceiver Kenwood
PS-430 power supply Kenwood
MC-60A microphone Kenwood
MDR CD450 phones Sony
PC Pentium II
CT 9.67 running under WinME
Name: Juan Pablo Mardones Call: CE4USW (contest call CE4U)
Occupation: University student Age: 22
Web: http://www.qsl.net/ce4u (under construction)
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