CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: NR6O
Operator(s): K6AW, K6IAM, K9YC, N6BV, N6RO, WA6O, WX5S
Station: N6RO
Class: M/M HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 264
80: 821
40: 1361
20: 1293
15: 518
10: 127
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Total: 4384 Prefixes = 904 Total Score = 7,679,480
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Despite lack of propagation on the high bands, our team exceeded last year's
score by nearly 30%. QSOs on all bands were better than 2007, and new station
QSO records for this contest (about our 20th year) were set on 160, 80 and
40m.
We had some minor networking problems, but packet on VE7CC was solid. The wind
Saturday night produced some arcing on the 160m elevated radials and an 80m
loop. The 160 arc was like an emergency flare, easy to find at night! On 160m
some precip static on Friday night, and thunderstorm QRN on Saturday made copy
difficult.
All of our regular team were here for this one, plus a newcomer to contesting,
K6IAM. Licensed about one year (extra class), Iain had never operated a
contest before. After an hour of listening to N6RO on a second headset on 40m,
he took over the rig and produced hours of 122 and 126! He did much of the
40m operating all weekend, including daytime trolling. Our 40m # is 300 Qs
higher than any previous total. We have declared K6IAM a 'natural' contester!
Congrats to NQ4I and crew, and the other M-M teams.
Here's the approximate continental breakdown. We on the west coast are
starting to forget what Europeans sound like!
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America SSB 266 706 1193 859 237 53 3314 74.0
South America SSB 1 10 34 64 102 37 248 5.5
Europe SSB 0 0 1 117 0 0 118 2.6
Asia SSB 1 79 107 194 91 0 472 10.5
Africa SSB 0 5 2 9 1 0 17 0.4
Oceania SSB 2 32 70 70 99 37 310 6.9
Five stations: Three FT1000mp, Orion, K3. CT logging S/W.
Stacked yagis on 40 through 10m, 2L LOOPS on 80m, 4 Square on 160.
CU in WPX CW, N6RO
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