CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: VE1DHD
Operator(s): VE1DHD
Station: VE1DHD
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: Seabright, NS
Operating Time (hrs): 26.18
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 54 3 2
80: 17 3 2
40: 30 6 10
20: 518 22 85
15: 357 17 59
10: 55 3 3
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Total: 1032 54 161 Total Score = 487,190
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
What a great weekend. This was my best effort yet as far as solo contesting
from home. My new DX-sloper worked great for me on 160 but I am still
disappointed at not being able to get more of the mults on 40 and 80. I can
hear them, but at 95W, they just donâ??t hear me! :-(
Friday evening and Saturday were particularly good for me. I spent a lot of
time before the contest working out Propagation Predictions but in the end, I
just followed my gut and when 15 opened and stayed open I worked it to death
and was even surprised by a bit of an opening on 10m too. Sunday was another
story. I feared that the winds would be a problem, so set my beam on Europe
late Saturday evening. However, Europe seemed not to open very quickly for me
at any rate, and there I was stuck pointed NE for most of the day. When there
was finally a break in the gale about 4pm I managed to nurse the beam around to
SW (BOY, would a StepIR have been nice in this condition!!!) and then had to
leave it fixed. BOY, were the winds high out here on the coast!!
In the final analysis, I am quite pleased with my effort.
73 Howard â?? VE1DHD
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