CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: M/N2WKS
Operator(s): N2WKS
Station: M/N2WKS
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: England
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 17 3 10
80: 310 10 54
40: 316 16 70
20: 626 25 90
15: 58 17 35
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 1327 71 259 Total Score = 817,080
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
Callsign was a mouthfull (fistfull?) which made S/P difficult. I hope everyone
logged it correctly (M/N2WKS) and not as any of the busted versions. I will
have to get a local callsign for next time.
I had diffuculty on the low bands and I will need to improve the antennas on
40/80/160 as I could not be heard by many even here in Europe. Conditions did
improve later on Saturday night on both 40 and 80 and I was able to run for
periods of time on both but 160 was not very productive.
I guess I missed the 15 meter opening as I was only able to work a handful and
nobody was particularly strong except a few of the guys in the caribbean.
20 was the money band and I pushed the rate meter up over 200 a couple of times
which I usually can't even do in morse runner so it was a lot of fun.
I used an ICOM 7700 for the first time and it was so clean even right next to
strong stations that it made it much easier to run then I am used to with the
756pro I normally use. I hope I did not get too close to people not realizing
it, if I did it was not intentional.
I tried to use the Rigexpert tiny and I couldn't get CAT working. CW worked ok
but I noticed it was CPU intensive which was a bit annoying on this single cpu
machine...probably not an issue on a dual core box but I probably should have
used the rigexpert plus. I wasn't able to get CAT working from the rigexpert
plus with n1mm and an FT2000 either so I have some computer issues to work
out.
QSO total was a record for me but point total was not due to all the 1 point
QSOs I had with EU stations. I will need to work on a plan to balance this so
I can improve my score next time.
QSL via LOTW. 73 es thanks for all the QSOs.
Zev M/N2WKS
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