IARU HF World Championship
Call: WX3B
Operator(s): WX3B
Station: WX3B
Class: M/S HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
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160: 0 0 0
80: 0 0 0
40: 44 95 25
20: 96 235 63
15: 15 121 30
10: 0 8 2
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Total: 155 459 120 Total Score = 226,080
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
How about that - here we are at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, and Europeans
are coming in on 10 meters! Before the contest - CT1ILZ and a few other
Europeans were 59+ on 28mhz at about 10:00pm local time - Friday evening.
Enjoyed the first few hours on 15 & 20 - and was absolutely SURPRISED by the
awesome 40 meter propagation in the evening.
This contest started off slowly for me, especially when I QSYed to 20 meters
and couldn't run a think except folks in my back yard. I got quite good at
pouncing - and I truly felt like I was running 100w and a dipole the first
couple hours.
I also noticed that it was not "low antenna day" and I could hear everybody at
least 20db better than they heard me. I called in the face of many Asians that
were S7 or louder that absolutely did NOT hear me. I couldn't break the pileup
of local europeans working each other. It was a lesson in humility and
patience....and importance of having higher antennas.
I took most of the afteroon and evening off - and returned at 11:00pm at night
to find 20 meters COMPLETELY open, and my signal was BACK. Folks I could
barely here were answering me again. The loud Europeans persisted until long
past 1:00am - even at my bedtime I heard some Europeans. At 3:00am when I shut
down, I worked a few loud JAs on 20 and enjoyed having VK3IO call me on 40m SSB
with his S9 Signal.
This contest was great fun, and I sure hope these conditions hold up for the
upcoming WAE contests.
Special thanks and appreciation go out to the WRTC participants and that entire
group that organized and ran such a fine event. Makes me wish the WRTC call
signs themselves were multipliers!
I did not pay attention to the WRTC participant list and of course hearing the
best of the best, all at the same time, is a rare treat and instant graduate
level course on contesting.
73!
Jim Nitzberg WX3B
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