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Subject: [3830] WPX SSB ZM2IO(ZL3IO) SOAB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: holger@9h3m.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:40:56 +0000
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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: ZM2IO
Operator(s): ZL3IO
Station: ZM2IO

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Waimarama Heights
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:     
   80:     
   40:  138
   20:  356
   15:  805
   10: 1356
------------
Total: 2697  Prefixes = 1017  Total Score = 8,400,420

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

The original plan was to do 10m SB. The contest started with great runs into US
and Asia for the first few hours. Unfortunately Europe short path never opened
to ZL. I heard the Asians and VK's running EU but not a glimpse down here.
Without the EU prefixes it's a hopeless effort so I decided to switch to SOAB
to have at least some contesting fun. 
Unfortunately I'm handicapped on 40m since my beam (while laying on the
ground)tried to play wind wheel during some higher winds (~200 km/h) we had.
The loops are better than nothing but not really competitive.

My K3 also made some trouble sfter about 3 hours into the contest and stopped
working in SSB. It seams an Ocean side QTH like ours is testing the limits of
the connectors/contacts used. Luckily I was able to get it back on the air.

10m was still the money band as it was somewhere between good and bad. 
Too good conditions are not favouring locations like ours. We are 90 or 180
degree off to everybody elses main antenna directions and on top further away.
So while EU/AS/NA/SA enjoy big pile ups with each other we stand on the side
line and get no attention. 
15m was a typical example. It was open into all directions meaning nobody
beamed to Southern Oceania. Without a cluster spot one feels like transmitting
on a dummy load. But I can see your point even so I'm complaining here. 
Looking into my own log only 80 contacts out of my 2700 Q's were made with
stations located within 6,000 miles radius of my antennas! I worked 8 ZL's! And
that are also all the 8 contacts I made within a 3,000 km radius. In your
situation I would do the same.

10m was the money band for me but it never seemd to know itself what to do.
After a great start it went noisy & showed big QSB period during the end of
day one. At the end of day two it in great shape again with very nice US runs
and great long path conditions into Europe from here. I worked all my prefixes
from Southern Europe (EA/CT/I/F etc.) on 10m long path. It was open up into
southern DL. Some EA's told me I was S5-9 for over 2 hours (but only slow
rates). 

So after all I had many nice runs and a good time on the radio!
Thanks for the contacts and see you in the next one.

73 Holger


Rig: K3 + KPA500
Ant:
2 x hexbeam (20-10) @ 21 & 10 m height
10m: 3L Quad @ 15m
15m: 5L Yagi @ 18m
40m: 2L wire loop apex at 17m (fixed to East)


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