CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K4ZW
Operator(s): K4ZW
Station: N3HBX
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 83 17 48
80: 444 25 76
40: 587 31 104
20: 1373 30 112
15: 155 21 70
10: 14 8 10
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Total: 2656 132 420 Total Score = 4,151,040
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
We have been pretty lucky the past couple of years with conditions during both
modes of CQ WW DX however, it caught up with us this weekend. I couldn't get
any runs going the first night on 40 or 80. That's with a 3 element wire beam
at 140' on 80 and a pair of 4 element 40 meter yagi's at 180'/100'. Then, it
got worse.
I went to move the multiplier tower (N3HBX has rotating towers) to the
Pacific and it gave me a position fault. The tower wouldn't turn. It was
pointing to the Caribbean. Next I went to rotate the 15 meter tower, which
also contains the Lazy H on 80 as described in a recent NCJ. It went about 20
degrees and faulted. John stopped by mid morning Saturday so I gave him the
news. The control relays in the multiplier tower (30 amp contacts) were melted
together! The breaker for the 15 meter tower tripped so he reset it. I went to
load up the 15 meter stack and the SWR was high. For whatever reason, the 15
meter tower decided to start rotating on its own. After about two revolutions
the coax ripped apart and became caught up in the gears. John said it was a
real mess! That meant what I had left on 15 was the multipler antennas to the
south. Eventually he did get the multiplier tower towards Europe so I had a
short run late Sunday as the sun was setting across Western Europe. Also the
shredded coax meant no Lazy H so I was left with an inverted V on 80 meters to
directions other than Europe. Not the easiest thing to work JA and Pacific
with. (OK I'm spoiled)
I had visions of hanging it up Sunday afternoon and going home to watch some
football. But, I really was still having a good time running John's station.
Then it became a contest within a contest to see if I could reach 4 million.
Even with a fully functioning station, I would not have caught K5ZD and would
have been pressed to match Doug's (K1DG) score. Going in my goal was to try
and close the gap from last year and then let the chips fall where they may.
There's always next year. Thanks again to N3HBX for allowing me to operate a
great station in the best contest of the year. It doesn't get much better than
that.
Ken
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- 46/42 4/7 --+-- --+-- --+-- 50/49 50/49
D1-0100Z - 5/5 50/44 - - - 55/49 105/98
D1-0200Z 22/23 2/2 7/3 - - - 31/28 136/126
D1-0300Z 3/1 - 68/16 - - - 71/17 207/143
D1-0400Z 4/3 23/9 30/4 - - - 57/16 264/159
D1-0500Z 7/8 49/4 - - - - 56/12 320/171
D1-0600Z 5/4 70/7 1/0 - - - 76/11 396/182
D1-0700Z - 45/1 19/13 - - - 64/14 460/196
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 45/6 --+-- --+-- --+-- 45/6 505/202
D1-0900Z 1/0 12/7 21/3 - - - 34/10 539/212
D1-1000Z 1/0 3/6 15/13 - - - 19/19 558/231
D1-1100Z 6/8 1/2 - 29/23 - - 36/33 594/264
D1-1200Z - - 4/1 133/22 - - 137/23 731/287
D1-1300Z - - - 132/7 2/3 - 134/10 865/297
D1-1400Z - - - 135/6 6/10 - 141/16 1006/313
D1-1500Z - - - 78/14 1/1 1/2 80/17 1086/330
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 138/8 --+-- --+-- 138/8 1224/338
D1-1700Z - - - 50/3 13/18 5/5 68/26 1292/364
D1-1800Z - - - 2/2 20/18 - 22/20 1314/384
D1-1900Z - - - 40/28 - - 40/28 1354/412
D1-2000Z - - 65/1 3/3 - - 68/4 1422/416
D1-2100Z - - 34/2 8/5 7/4 1/0 50/11 1472/427
D1-2200Z - 20/4 - 19/3 - - 39/7 1511/434
D1-2300Z 6/5 5/2 14/0 1/1 - - 26/8 1537/442
D2-0000Z 5/4 4/0 19/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 28/7 1565/449
D2-0100Z 11/4 3/0 - - - - 14/4 1579/453
D2-0200Z - 11/0 - - - - 11/0 1590/453 44
D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1590/453 60
D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 1590/453 60
D2-0500Z - 48/2 - - - - 48/2 1638/455 11
D2-0600Z - 61/2 - - - - 61/2 1699/457
D2-0700Z 3/0 27/0 3/2 - - - 33/2 1732/459
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 8/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/2 1740/461 29
D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1740/461 60
D2-1000Z - - 2/1 - - - 2/1 1742/462 58
D2-1100Z 2/2 5/5 2/2 - - - 9/9 1751/471
D2-1200Z - - - 113/0 - - 113/0 1864/471
D2-1300Z - - - 107/0 7/8 - 114/8 1978/479
D2-1400Z - - - 112/2 7/7 - 119/9 2097/488
D2-1500Z - - - 64/1 8/6 7/11 79/18 2176/506
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 42/0 67/15 --+-- 109/15 2285/521
D2-1700Z - - - 84/0 2/1 - 86/1 2371/522
D2-1800Z - - - 46/1 9/0 - 55/1 2426/523
D2-1900Z - - - 19/9 5/0 - 24/9 2450/532
D2-2000Z - - 82/5 1/0 1/0 - 84/5 2534/537
D2-2100Z - - 57/2 4/1 - - 61/3 2595/540
D2-2200Z - 4/1 22/3 - - - 26/4 2621/544
D2-2300Z 7/3 - 15/2 13/3 - - 35/8 2656/552
Total: 83/65 444/101 587/1351373/142 155/91 14/18
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