CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: ND0C
Operator(s): ND0C
Station: ND0C
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: Minnesota
Operating Time (hrs): 37.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 1 1 1
80: 21 9 7
40: 61 12 33
20: 179 23 69
15: 243 26 77
10: 493 26 90
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Total: 998 97 277 Total Score = 1,053,558
Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn
Comments:
Well... the sun decided to come out and play this time! The conditions, as we
all know by now, were unbelievable. I had been very encouraged in the lead-up
over the last couple weeks, daring to hope that we might see a recurrance of
the 2011 conditions. And wow...! Great conditions to run QRP on the high
bands!
This score is a personal best for me, surpassing 2011. I was able to hit the
million point mark (prior to log checking) for the first time ever, failing
just short of 1,000 Qs. And I got an imaginary weekend DXCC again for the
third time in CQWW with a total of 103 unique countries worked.
Of course 10 meters was incredible, with the band wall-to-wall well above
29.000 MHz. 15 and 20 were also very good, and I had to ration my time so I
didn't just sit on 10 all day! 40 was OK from here and I was able to do
half-way decent (for mediocre antennas in the "black hole"). 80 was
pretty much a lost cause - I didn't hear much here, but didn't spend a lot of
time messing around down there.
This was all S&P... I tried running a few times on 10, but just couldn't
get anything going. I had 4 hours on Saturday morning and early afternoon when
I averaged over 60 QSOs per hour with S&P - pretty good for with QRP!
Some of the pile-ups were really big and nasty - some I just passed by figuring
I'd be better off to rack up more Qs elsewhere and come back later when things
had hopefully died down a bit. - We QRPers have to choose our battles,
consistent with the philosophy espoused by "Dirty Harry" (Clint
Eastwood): "A man's got to know his limitations."
Obviously the whole packet "thing" has contributed to bigger
pile-ups, and apparently most of the callers know the callsign of the DX from
the spots, since some DX stations would go for several minutes without IDing.
- Very frustrating. The splatter situation seems as bad as ever and W/VE is
not exempt. There seemed to be some ugly signals over here, taking quite a bit
of band-space.
As always, thanks to the stations that used patience, persistence and good ears
to pull me out of the noise and splatter.
The ND0C "super-station":
Rig: Yaesu FT-897D running 5 watts
Antennas: Cycle 24 TX38 tribander (with interlaced monobanders on a common
15' boom) at 40' above ground (I've only had this antenna up a month and half,
but really like it so far); Cushcraft D40 rotatable dipole; inverted vee
73,
Randy, ND0C
"You don't have to be crazy to contest with QRP ... but it helps!"
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