CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K1ZZ
Operator(s): K1ZZ
Station: K1ZZ
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 37
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 127 15 57
80: 295 23 81
40: 478 29 112
20: 516 25 108
15: 381 23 88
10: 45 12 30
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Total: 1842 127 476 Total Score = 3,133,188
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
K1AR preaches that regular activity is one of the secrets to success in
contesting. That was brought home to me this weekend. I haven't been on much
from home lately because of travel, so it was a surprise when I turned on the
radios Friday night and encountered serious intermittent line noise -- most of
the time bouncing the meter up to S9 -- at my location, which is normally
slightly noisy to the west but dead quiet toward Europe.
Monday night after the contest I traced the problem to arcing on a pole across
the road from my driveway, about 700 feet from the nearest antenna. Had I done
my homework before the contest I might have been able to get it fixed. Instead,
the weekend was a teeth-gritting exercise. Most of the time I wasn't able to
call CQ because I didn't have a prayer of hearing most callers. I was able to
use the noise blanker on 10, but not on the other bands because of too many
signals. Normally I can operate CW for many hours at a time without fatigue,
but copying through pulsating noise wore me out and I had to take more breaks
than usual -- on top of which there was no point in operating at times when
most signals were weak.
Still, even though I couldn't be competitive this year, it was more fun
operating than not operating.
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