CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: AK1W
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOSB40 HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40: 961
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 961 Prefixes = 453 Total Score = 1,004,754
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Probably the worst conditions on 40m for a WPX Phone contest that I can ever
recall. Friday night started OK, but Europe virtually disappeared after the
first 2 hours. If the first 2 hours had not produced such a high rate, not
sure I would have continued.
Was interesting to hear some of the big Eu multi-ops at our sunrise (which
would be local noon for them!). Only heard 3 JAs, all loud, but none listening
up.
Saturday night about 22z, just as the band was opening, my wife announced that
I was taking her out to dinner. No refusing that request. Missed what was
probably the best 3 hours of the evening.
Sunday afternoon the band had a suprising amount of USA activity. Calling CQ
resulted in a slow but steady rate. Finally, with 2 hours to go the bands
returned to "normal" and it was possible to work some Europe for valuable 6
point QSOs.
I have a lot more respect for the KC7EM USA record set back in 1995 (1.95Meg).
Biggest suprise was calling CQ around 22z on Saturday and having 2 VK stations
call in on the long path. Also being called by two different 9K2 and HZ1
stations.
Nice to exchange notes with K9NW during the contest. I think we are both nuts
to do single band 40!
Some numbers:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 0 0 760 0 0 0 760 79.1
EU 0 0 150 0 0 0 150 15.6
AF 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 0.7
SA 0 0 19 0 0 0 19 2.0
AS 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 0.8
OC 0 0 17 0 0 0 17 1.8
Most worked countries:
K 676 676
VE 57 57
DL 27 27
G 17 17
OK 9 9
VK 9 9
EA 8 8
PY 8 8
S5 8 8
SP 8 8
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