CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: W4PK
Operator(s): W4PK
Station: W4PK
Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 11:07
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 1 1 1
80: 293 25 77
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 293 25 77 Total Score = 83,588
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Again I elected to do single-band 80M this year. This is the first time I used
the new N1MM+ software and I spent a lot of time getting familiar with it. It
has some features that I really like! However, a couple of stations were
working split and when I put my IC7800 into split mode the program did weird
things. This was with it set up for SO2R operation with the other radio being
a K3, but not being used for this contest.
I did try running a few times but this cw-challenged operator is more
comfortable with just searching and pouncing at my leisure, and probably 75% of
my qso's were made this way. I also used the telnet cw-spotting feature but a
LOT of the spots had errors in the calls. Also, I did note that every few
minutes there was a broad-band signal that went "BRAP-BRAP-BRAP" that
as far as I could tell occupied the entire 80M cw band.
I made one contact on 160M, and it was with 4L5O, Georgia. This is a new
country on 160M for me, being #278. He was on Friday night with a pretty
decent signal but a couple of gentlemen from the U.S. who should have known
better kept tail-ending each other. I could tell that 4L5O was coming back to
someone but this went on for about an hour, and I just listened until it was
sunrise at his location. Saturday night he was mostly in and out of the noise
but I did manage to connect with him on one of his peaks.
Propagation this year was just so-so, with the paths to the Far East being
almost non-existent. I only managed two "iffy" contacts, one being
with a station in Japan and the other in Asiatic Russia.
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