CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N3JT
Operator(s): N3JT
Station: N3JT
Class: SOSB/15 QRP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15: 300 28 96
10:
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Total: 300 28 96 Total Score = 108,624
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Observations:
1. There is a sense of old-time achievement in working DX with low power but
only if you are not trying to garner a huge score and do not mind calling a DL
three times.
2. Many operators have excellent radios and demonstrated exceptional skill in
copying me on the first call when they were S7 and I was probably just above
the noise.
3. Strategic calling often found me working "around" pileups. Remember those
drawings of a mouse sneaking away from a pile of cats?. A well-timed call
sometimes works better than power. (Mostly not, however.) I remember that too
from being on the pileup side in HK0/PZ/CP/VP2E, etc.
4. Running 5 watts did not keep the shack warm as does the Acom 2000A.
5. I called approximately 3,252 CQs and got 2 responses. Not a good strategy
for using QRP, at least for me. And I refuse to call "CQ de N3JT/QRP"!!! Why
worsen a bad situation by forcing the other station to copy "/QRP" in addition
to the weak callsign?!. Sympathy callers? Nah.
6. I admit to feeling some satisfaction in making a few guys struggle to get
my call given how many times I have done the same in copying them. I am
referring to the QRP guys at the top of the band.
7. Let's see now, 1500 watts versus 5 watts is, um, er, ah, about 28 dB. So
if I had been S9 with 1.5 kW I was about S4 with 5 watts. Mediocre conditions
would have made this exercise a fiasco.
8. I likely will not do this again, assuming my amplifier is returned in my
lifetime. At heart I am not a QRPer.
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