ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: CE1/K7CA
Operator(s): CE1/K7CA
Station: CE1/K7CA
Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: Huasco
Operating Time (hrs): 27:31
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10: 2451 60
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Total: 2451 60 Total Score = 441,180
Club:
Comments:
Great contest. The pileups were fantastic on Saturday and very well mannered.
I agree with several other posts that when you click on a station in your
computer list to change frequency automatically you are probably going to zero
beat with one or more other stations. This really slows things down because I
get exactly zero letters out of any call. Sometimes I get only the last letter
and if all stations don't reply when I ask for that one letter it works OK but
still delays things. It would help if you would qsy a few Hz after you get to
the new frequency. Once I only got VE out of the pileup and asked for VE and
then got 2 stations zero beat calling so tried "VE?" several times and each
time got the same mush. Then tried VE3? since there are more VE3's out there
and got a very clear VE3 callsign. Then asked for VE again and a VE2 called
in. They were both zero beat and about the same signal strength. Even 20 Hz
offset would have made those 2 qsos several minutes faster. When things were
slow I would work some of the DX stations that called in but mostly I would say
USA only because it slows things down working stations for zero points.
However, I did work about 50 DX and most of them gave me their power level so I
guess they didn't know that DX can't work DX. I even got a power from KG4AS.
Thanks for all the qsos and I hope to see some of you in the CQ160 SSB
contest this weekend. I'll only operate a few hours as I'm packing up to leave
until next November. 73, Al CE1/K7CA
Rig: K3, Ten-Tec titan, homebrew 5 el yagi on 27' boom 50' above the Pacific.
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