CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: KG0F
Operator(s): W0UA
Station: K0RF
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CO
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 70
40: 783
20: 875
15: 1167
10: 179
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Total: 3074 Prefixes = 1021 Total Score = 7,742,243
Club:
Comments:
First single-op Phone contest I've entered for a long time...almost long enough
to have forgotten just how labor-intensive (Read: painful) Phone really is. I
was trying to fight-off a pesky spring cold going in--not feeling well, and
ambivalent about tryng it--but after a (very) slow (and shaky) start I finally
shook it off and got some semblance of rythym going. Chuck came out to check
on me at 4 AM Sunday. I gave him my most pleading look and said, "Make it
STOP!" He promised he would...at 0000Z Sunday evening!
>From looking at other scores, I see that I suffered on 10 Meters. The rotor on
Chuck's upper 7 el yagi failed (a chronic issue) amd it was stuck SE the whole
weekend. That, combined with S7 line-noise to the DX corners (Chuck has a
substation just north of him) limited my activity on that band. Another couple
hundred QSOs(and some mults) there would've done wonders for the score. I
realized at some point that I was avoiding the band. That's OK, we'll get that
stuff sorted-out for the next one.
That X-Ray flare on Sunday morning...I've NEVER heard 15 Meters so quiet.
There wasn't even any band-noise--just soft RX noise--and a couple of weak
Caribbean signals. Chuck strolled in with a coffee for me at about 8:30 AM
local and I asked him to listen there for a moment & see what he could make
of it. He'd never heard anything like it, either! Fortunately, the band came
back at around 12:30 local and saved me from the unhappy prospect of being
trapped on 20, running only Ws (no DX) for the remaining 6 hours.
OK, well I survived it--I think? And, doing it seemed to shake-off my cold. Go
figure? Thanks to my long-time friend Steve, KG0F for allowing me the use of
his WPX-friendly call. And, needless to say, it's always a privilege and a
pleasure to operate from Chuck's station. Even on Phone...
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