Oceania DX Contest, CW
Call: ZM2B
Operator(s): ZL2BR
Station: ZM2B
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: New Plymouth
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 9 9
40: 422 265
20: 149 115
15: 183 116
10: 14 13
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Total: 777 516 Total Score = 1,425,369
Club:
Comments:
A very disappointing result. My lowest score since 1999 and my lowest number of
contacts since about 1980! On 40m in particular there were heaps of callers
that I was very sorry I could just not resolve.
It's hard to believe that a few a few years ago during the last period of low
SFI, that I could make 175 contacts on 80m and 660 contacts on 40m.
My problem is that because I live in an outer city suburb the EMC noise level
is forever on the increase, plus I feel I have a new noise problem from a
nearby 220kV power line, which I intend to investigate.
With the SFI around 81, 15m and 10m were as expected, open but only just.
As other VK/ZL operators have mentioned, the number of Oceania stations active
was very low this year, the poor conditions on the higher bands probably didn't
help, but we, that is - ZL, VK, YB etc definitely need to up our act in this
regard.
Station set-up, was IC-7600, around 750watts, C-3SS yagi at 10m, 40m GP at 7m,
40m dipole for receive, 80m dipole at 15m.
73, Frank ZL2BR/ZM2B
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