CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VE3FU
Operator(s): VE3FU
Station: VE3FU
Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20: 1229 28 109
15:
10:
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Total: 1229 28 109 Total Score = 440,181
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
Congratulations to VE3XD (LP) and VA7RR @ VE6JY (HP) on super SOSB 20m scores!
(10 years ago VA7RR and I operated 20m together at the VE3EJ MM).
Having moved from my old QTH 4 years ago I have been pretty much been off the
air since, except for a few multi-ops and SOSB 20 HP last year at VE3RM. I was
finally able to get my two towers (72' Trylons) and tribanders (TH6 & EX-14) up
late in October, and finished connecting the coax, rotor cables and control
wires about a week before the contest. Not having any antennas for the low
bands, I decided to do SOSB 20m again this year, and thanks to the loan of a
TL-922 from VE3AAQ (VO1AU) I was able to do HP. Unfortunately things didn't go
as well as I had planned in the first contest from my new QTH :=( On the bright
side - things can only get better!
Not having been seriously on the air since CQWW CW last year I was expecting
(and hoping) things would pick up right where they left off. Obviously that
wasn't the case. At the start of the contest last year I was able to run USA
stations, plus S&P SA, AF, and OC so that by the time I shut things down for
the night at 0700Z I had 300 QSOs in the log. This year, there was no USA to
run at the start and I had 23 QSOs in the log when I turned everything off at
0400Z.
When I wasn't able to get much of a run going into EU at sunrise Saturday I
thought conditions would be that way for the rest of the contest. I S&P'd my
way up and down the band during, in retrospect, what was a good opening to EU
and didn't make as many QSO's as I could have if I had stuck to CQing.
Like everyone else, I found the band very crowded and only open during the
daylight hours. As soon as the sun came up / went down it was like someone
threw a switch.
In the end, I made 360 fewer USA QSOs and 210 fewer EU QSOs than last year.
That accounts for the 2/3 reduction in QSOs and score from last year. That
plus the 4 fewer zones and 19 fewer countries :=( On the plus side, my pts/QSO
is up :=)
Thanks for all the QSOs and see you again next year!
73,
Chris
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