CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: C6ATA
Operator(s): K2KW
Station: C6ATA
Class: SOSB/40 LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 43
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40: 3456 33 129
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 3456 33 129 Total Score = 1,418,472
Club:
Comments:
Conditions were great (except for Sunday morning before sunrise), but I just
couldn't work enough to make the LP record (which I was aiming for). This was
my 3rd 40m LP effort, and frankly I just don't see how the current 40m LP
record was set with a single vertical on a hill (as claimed). The dB's, other
TC3 scores and area 40m HP scores suggest something was not as claimed.
I felt loud for running 100w, but either I worked the band out, or I made some
operating error. Over the pole propagation was great, but I still only worked
50 JA's, which was not very good. Maybe I worked too many JA's before the
contest...
Thanks to Tom N6BT for supplying the antennas for another Team Vertical
operation. We used the new Bravo series antennas and they were flawless. To
EU I used a 4 ele wide-spaced vertical array on the beach (5/8 WL spacing), a 2
ele Bravo to the USA, and a dipole for the SO2R station. I was able to operate
within about 5 kc of the other stations with only about 250' antenna to antenna
spacing. I give much credit to the pair of K3's, but the cross polarization and
sand dune helped.
This was my first time using the K3 on the DX side, and frankly the much hyped
pileup capability was not to my liking. In pre-conest operating, there was no
setting of AGC-Off (or On) that would make full callsigns stand out. AGC-off
was best for the huge pileups, but my old TS850 does better in those
conditions. Otherwise the radio to great.
Thanks to all the mults who called in. Working B1Z and JT5DX around 0800z was
the highlight, as well as working all the zone 17 mults which I have never done
before from the C6 QTH. I missed a bunch of easy mults: VP5 (!), V2, FY, CE,
CX, OA, and ZS which I know were on. I did hear a number of mults on the 2nd
radio but the pileups were too big to break even with the big antennas. South
America was noticably missing and I didnt work zone 12 even though I heard
one.
73 and CU next year. Kenny K2KW - C6ATA
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