CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: N2WN
Operator(s): N2WN
Station: N2WN
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Grainger Co., Tn
Operating Time (hrs): 23:19
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 14 7 7
80: 54 13 28
40: 52 17 33
20: 103 17 60
15: 160 25 69
10: 561 27 94
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Total: 944 106 291 Total Score = 1,051,653
Club: Tennessee Contest Group
Comments:
Wow, obviously 10m was the big story, although 15 seemed pretty good too.
I had planned to only spend a little time on 10, mostly interested in seeing if
I could work 100 DXCC, came close, got hooked on stopping and running. There
were signals a ways above 29MHz and all sorts of interesting calls to be had.
It's a hell of a lot of ground to cover S&P, and running sometimes seemed
limiting. Still, many new calls and I'm sure more than a few "antenna limited"
folks finally got a chance at working the world. I can see where being assisted
would be a major benefit now.
Spent too much time on the low bands, but that happens, particularly when you
can't sleep. 75 didn't seem too bad, was surprised at what I worked with the
inverted Vee. 160 was quiet, D4C was the best DX heard, but not worked. 40 on
phone is not my thing. 20 was a struggle too, had hoped it would have been
better with "fewer" stations, but it was not the case.
Considering the congestion on the high bands, I thought folks were pretty
decent behaving overall.
Tried to get my sound card voice keying to work, but evidently something is
amiss and need a new card. I have a DVK in the "new" K3 and used it for the
first time. Still have a few things to learn with it, but it did make the
overall experience better.
It still amazes me how many folks have such distorted audio. Some of the
stations messages were unintelligible, but when the op came on live, sounded
fine. Some it didn't matter, big signals calling endless CQs and getting few
replies because few could figure out the call sign.
The other thing was lack of identification, seems like if you take the time to
send QRZ when running, wouldn't it make more sense to send your call and keep
the pile-up more manageable? Some got kinda snooty when they had a chorus of
"what's your call?" and chided the choir. Same question, if you have enough
time to tell folks to wait for the call, why not just ID and get it over with?
These seem to be eternal occurrences...
Fun weekend overall and good to work so many guys I know from CW on phone, not
too mention add a bunch of new band countries. Such a difference between DXCC
entities "common" on SSB, but virtually nil on CW. RTTY seems to straddle them
both!
Thanks for the QSOs and patience.
73,
Julius
n2wn
Elecraft K3/100
4 element Steppir @15m
80m Inverted Vee (apex about 45')
40m vertical
160m Tee
N1MM
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