CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VO1MP
Operator(s): VO1MP
Station: VO1MP
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: NL
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 83 12 39
80: 201 21 73
40: 202 22 80
20: 438 24 22
15: 94 18 48
10: 4 3 4
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Total: 1022 329 100 Total Score = 1,149,720
Club: East Coast Canada Contest Club
Comments:
As always a fun contest , however after lots of deliberation and chiding by
local radio friends about my incalcitrant attitude toward getting my SO2R
into action I finally capitulated
and decided that here goes .....!!!
So It was by a sense of experimental design that finally I would operate as
SO2R. Initially I had felt that this is a piece of cake, after all I had seen
Yuri VE3DZ do it from here and he made it look so easy .. ... yeah right !!
Initially I had allowed myself a lot of leeway and decided that Rate and or
score should not
factor into the evaluation process less I distort my own evaluation.... this
poved to be a small part of my own
undoing so to speak .
I had set parameters of 300 Band Countries, 100 Zones and 1000 QSOs all of
which were far too low as guidelines. I spent only 28 Hours operating and a
lot of time snacking and napping not necessarily in that order. MY very first
observation is that the amount of energy expended while doing full blown SO2R
far exceeds that required with a single rig and keyboard , Hardly an earth
shatterign revelation !! Consequently I frequently succumbed to the feeling
that I needed to take a break (s) so napping and snacking became the rigeur
du jour. Kudos to the guys who do this seemlessly , it is obvously not( for me
anyway ) an inherent skill and would seem to require a tonne of practice to
get thoroughly at ease with the process.. I am one who is accustomed to
operating more or less by rote without having to pay attention to controls and
switching in addition to operating. As a method to otherwise eliminate the
process of having to simultaneously tune another band while operating I elected
to do assisted with a cluster connection , this method did in fact help
.........however as others are apt to call it ... this mode ..IS.. by it's
nature ..assuredly Single Op distracted. Any body who does full blown SO2R
without cluster quite obviously has to work....or operate however one wishes
to categorize it.Toward the end of the contest I found myself totally
abandonning the two radio listening process and elected to switch back and
forth between rigs .. not a true SO2R . I did find it an interesting
exercise and although I had used two rigs for a long time it was my first
excursion into REAl SO2r . I will comment that I found it tireing as opposed
to difficult and for me that may be a consequence of ageing as opposed to
abilities. Will I try it again ?.... yeah I think so.... however the
ergonomics and station lay out need to be improved to facilate conrol and
minimize fatigue I guess one has to operate to realy see the shortcomings and
advantages.
Conditions were variable 40 meters as most have noted were not great on
night one 80 and 160 were good
from here as other have noted..
Piss and Moan:
I read with amusement the notes posted by KH7B and echo his sentiments
entirely, I too have become increasingly aware that the number of lids is
increasing , I found the same problem with sweepstakes and now aqain in
CQWWCW . Perhaps it IS an accepted part of PILEUP busting where might is
right
I also absolutely refuse to change my mind on who it is I have acknowledged
and I resort to resending the letters I had actually copied as many as five
or six times until they get the message ..... cheeeese and I am not even a
mult in this contest..... my observations made during ssb sweeps still hold
true. Unfortunately one needs to repeat the process over and over because the
few lids in you present pile up will be worked and gone soon and a new batch
will take their place ....... I know it's like preaching to the Choir...
however unless we do something to minimize the effect of these LID operators
it can and will only get worse. I know people dont like pissers and moaners
but we need em, as a some time Contest op dxpeditioner who hasn't been on
one for a
while I wonder how DX Location operators cope with or have found this....
Anyway Thanks for Qso's
C'Y'all Next one
GLWCDR
73 Gus VO1MP
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