CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 16 8 8
80: 99 19 51
40: 124 27 65
20: 329 39 107
15: 406 32 111
10: 198 29 68
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Total: 1172 154 410 Total Score = 1,818,900
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Been entering this contest for 20+ years and have never worked all 40 zones.
Came close this year. When I worked 8Q7DV at 0226 Saturday evening (Sunday UTC)
it left me missing only zone 34. I had heard SU9NC briefly Saturday morning on
10 meters but he disappeared before I could work him. Hoped to find him
somewhere Sunday but I never heard another peep from him or any other zone 34
station. I did manage to work 39 zones on a single band ? 20 meters. First time
I?ve done that. Total zones (154) was also the highest I?ve ever had but total
countries, 410, was well below my 485 high water mark from 2002.
Last spring just after the contest season was over I replaced my C4SXL with a 4
element Steppir. The down side of that was I lost my 40 meter beam. I thought I
would have plenty of time to put up another tower with an even better 40 meter
antenna. Well here it is November and the new tower is still laying on the
ground. After CQWW SSB I decided to stack a 40 meter rotary dipole above my
Steppir as a short term solution. Didn?t happen. Two weeks ago I mounted it half
way up the tower to check it out. Then the rains came (most ever recorded here
in November). That was followed by gale force winds. Actually I may be fortunate
it is still on the side of the tower! I was surprised to find that even off the
ends it works better than my roof mounted vertical but the difference between it
and the old C4SXL at 135 feet is at least an S-unit ..a big one when you are
running low power. Oh well ?maybe by ARRL DX?
Here is the set up for this one.
Radios: Tentec Orion and Icom IC-746Pro
Antennas: 135' Rohn 25 tower with a 4 element Steppir, an 80 meter sloper
"array" strung from top, and a Force 12 40 meter dipole side mounted at 70'.
Tower shunt loaded on 160. Second 48' tower supports a homemade quad - 2
elements on 15 and 20, 4 on 10.
Miscellaneous: Homemade SO2R controller, WX0B ?SixPack? antenna switch, TR log.
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