CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: V26K
Operator(s): AA3B
Station: V26B
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Antigua
Operating Time (hrs): 43.6
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 219 14 43
80: 669 17 76
40: 1953 30 100
20: 1738 26 97
15: 811 24 70
10: 35 7 16
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Total: 5425 118 402 Total Score = 7,056,400
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This was my lucky 13th trip to the Caribbean for CQ WW CW and 11th visit to the
V26B super station. As always, I would like to thank WT3Q, N3OC, V21N and Team
Antigua for helping to make this effort possible.
The station was in great shape when I arrived thanks to the work of Team
Antigua. The only problem I encountered was intermittent high SWR conditions
when using the Stack Matches on 20M and 15M â?? I decided it would be best to
only use the top antenna in each stack and this seemed to work fine. A NE
beverage was installed within 30 minutes of arriving. AC power was solid.
My goal for the contest was 6000 QSOs and 8.4M. I estimated an average of 2.5
points per QSOs. I then developed QSO and multiplier targets for each band,
and time allocations for running 3 point QSOS, running 2 point QSOs and hunting
multipliers. The following is a comparison of my actual performance to my
pre-contest goals:
Score Score Score
Goal Actual Delta
8400000 7056400 (1343600)
Goal Goal Actual Actual Delta Delta
Band QSOs Mults QSOs Mults QSOs Mults
160 201 40 219 57 18 17
80 612 94 669 93 57 (1)
40 1972 137 1953 130 (19) (7)
20 1547 131 1738 123 191 (8)
15 1558 119 811 94 (747) (25)
10 110 40 35 23 (75) (17)
Total 6000 561 5425 520 (575) (41)
Scenario Goal Actual Delta
Run 3 Pt 27.0 27.6 0.6 hours
Hunt 4.0 4.4 0.4 hours
Run 2 Pt 12.0 11.6 (0.4) hours
Total 43.0 43.6 0.6 hours
Overall Productivity:
QSOs/ Mults/ Points/
Scenario Hour Hour Hour
Overall 124.5 11.9 162279
Run 3 Pt 138.2 11.6 158275
Hunt 19.1 18.9 256027
Run 2 Pt 148.1 10.0 136203
I obviously missed my pre-contest goal by several miles. The primary reason is
that I did not have the productivity on 15M that I had anticipated. The 15M
band did not open to Europe for very long and most of my contacts on the band
were with North America. Certainly 10M was also a disappointment â?? I was not
able to work a single station from Zone 3, 4 or 5.
I was very surprised by the totals for 160M. It was quite a thrill to have
many loud EU and AF stations call in on the second night around 02z. I also
felt loud on 80M this year.
Thanks for all the QSOs. I will go again in 2009. QSL via AA3B.
73 Bud V26K / AA3B
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