CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: VE9CB
Operator(s): VE9CB
Station: VE9CB
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: New Brunswick
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 251
40: 1021
20: 1888
15: 87
10: 0
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Total: 3238 Prefixes = 1072 Total Score = 11,717,160
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
What a difference in a year. Ten metres was completely dead, and 15m was only
good for a very few QSOs, so most of the action went to 20 and 40m and stayed
there. The crowding on 20m was the most extreme I have seen in years. Space
was short and so were tempers. While I made over 1100 QSOs on 10 and 15
combined last year, this year I made zero on 10 and less than 100 on 15m. All
that traffic had to go somewhere.
In spite of the crowding, I was thrilled that two BYs, several JAs, one HS and
two long-path VK2s found me and I was amazed that I could hear them.
I replaced my single 40m vertical dipole with a switchable array of four
vertical dipoles, and it is working well. I more than doubled my QSO total on
40m, and thereby took myself out of the TS sub-category.
My claimed score dropped about 20% from last year's effort, but I feel very
happy with the result.
I did a little SO2R. While running on 20m, I tuned 15m to find new QSOs and to
search for the great opening to Europe (or anywhere, really) that never came. I
did interleave several dozen 15m QSOs while running on 20m.
Rigs:
Stn 1: FTdx-5000 + AL-80A amplifier (800w out)
Stn 2: TS-590 (100w out)
Antennas:
10/15/20m: X-7 tribander at 22m
40m: 4-square of vertical dipoles
80m: Quad loop
160m: I once heard someone say "If you're on 160 in WPX, you're
losing."
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