CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: WP2XX
Operator(s): WP2XX
Station: WP2XX
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 36.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80: 220 16 36
40: 124 21 44
20: 1112 31 85
15: 1068 32 91
10: 1678 30 88
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Total: 4202 130 344 Total Score = 4,579,788
Club:
Comments:
Worked this one from the station of Fred, K9VV/NP2X. Since he and his wife were
off-island all weekend, I went from barefoot-and-vertical to kilowatt and
tribander. Thanks to Fred and Lisa for their hospitality! Imagine what this
station will sound like with monobanders. ;)
WOW. I mean, WOW. Fantastic weekend, fabulous conditions, and just general
Awesome slathered Win and dusted with sparkles. Personal best single-op effort.
Went assisted but shouldn't have, as the station computer took a dump before
the test so I had no rig control. Because of that, Point-and-shoot insta-mult
wasn't on the table. But it's all good. I could still see where the mults were
hiding, so it helped.
This was the longest I've spent in the chair for a 48-hour contest, too. I'm
tired, but it feels good.
Low bands were "Meh", partly because the high bands were so
spectacular and partly because 250w into a vertical on 40m isn't helping. I
*should* have taken an hour on Saturday to drop the 75m dipole and string a 40m
inverted-Vee beneath it, but didn't even think about it until this morning.
Highlights, in no particular order:
Getting called by KC4AAN with something like 8 minutes left to play on 20.
Never worked Antarctica before. I wanted to ask him if they found the other
Stargate yet - that's how punch-drunk I was.
Having my pileup *pause itself* so I could work the HS0 who I couldn't hear
trough the wall of USA. Seriously. Guy called me, got the Q, then observed
there's an HS calling. Before I could key, the pile went *silent*. In fact,
except for a couple of exceptions my piles were very orderly indeed all
weekend.
Speaking of pileups, W3KB maliciously spotting me so he could listen to the
pileup go from "a couple of guys" to "FREAKING APESH!T"
with a click of his mouse. :-P
Getting lots of unsolicited positive comments on my transmitted audio. One
fellow even recorded me and emailed it. Cool. ;)
Thanks to all the FRC guys who called. In fact, FRC calls figure largely in the
first ten minutes of my log. Which is cool. One of my sole regrets about moving
to USVI full-time is that FRC can no longer have my single-op points for the
Club competition.
Vy 73 es cul de WP2XX
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