CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N7KU
Operator(s): NJ6D
Station: NJ6D
Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: Arizona
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10: 1069 35 125
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Total: 1069 35 125 = 447,200
Club/Team:
Comments:
Well... The contest started great from here, with my score up 30Qs and 5 mults
over last year at the end of the night. Thanks much to all the stations from
Japan calling in, without you this would have been a very dull contest from the
western US.
I woke Saturday morning ready to have a fun day. Wow!, was I ever wrong about
that. Through Satuday morning and mid-day I managed to work 3, yes folks 3,
stations out of Europe all with the beam pointed at 120 degrees. The Carabean
stations were non-existant until mid-day here. On top of this, on occasions
South America took a fade with only a few of the stronger PYs and LUs coming
throughr. From 1400-2000 UTC I worked only 50 stations. It seemed anything on
a beam heading north of 110 degrees from here was dead Saturday due to the
storm.
Saturday evening was pretty good into Asia. Thanks again to the stations from
Japan. I ended the evening with a good mult from UK9AA on a skewed path (290
degrees) at 0245 UTC, followed by finding XU7. At the end of the night I was
at 604Qs 30Zs 75Cs. Reading the comments from W4ZV, I was actually up on his
Qs at this point, this just underscores the importance of running EU and having
a great QTH, normally ZV would have been well ahead.
Sunday morning was MUCH better, with signals coming from their typical
directions and sounding strong. I hunted around for a bit looking for mults
and finally settled in around 75.5 for a nice run at EU from 1450 through
18:30. The run ended after EU went into darkness and I hunted mults again with
a few goodies ending in the log (5H, 3V8, D44, FR5, CU2).
The rest of Sunday was a grind. Most everyone I came across was already in the
log. I managed a handfull of South Americans and a few new Caribean mults, but
not much else. I ended with a short run on 12.5 which netted my final mult
from FK8 - thanks!
Another contest in the books.
Cheers - Chuck.
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