CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 29.5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 47
40: 286
20: 854
15: 77
10:
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Total: 1264 Prefixes = 545 Total Score = 1,864,990
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
First day was great fun. Sunday was painful and no fun at all. The bottom
dropped out of the bands mid-day Saturday and never recovered. Some pretty ugly
aurora and soaring A-index ruined WPX CW this time out. Glad to get the nice
conditions in the first 12 hours prior to the hammering, though. Anyone who was
in it for just day two must have felt cheated.
I had to take two multi-hour breaks on Saturday morning and afternoon so lost
out on any European mults that might have added to the total -- again, never
could recover from missing those. Thought I suspect there wasn't much worked
over the pole from here after 1700z Saturday.
Sure is a drag to spend all the daylight hours on a single band -- 20M was
worked out almost completely by the final hours. Made four Qs in the entire
last 15 minutes. Lost the final couple of minutes to a mystery operator sending
'something slash six' on a bug and ran out of time so he never did get in my
log.
Had hoped for 100 Qs on 15M but it was a struggle just getting the 77 I did
manage to find. 80M was disappointing -- sure is a huge lost opportunity if
only people would stay up later and move down. That's easy to say from the west
coast, but those 4-pointers are like gold.
-- Bud VA7ST
Zone Zero contesting podcast -- http://zone.va7st.ca
Year QSO WPX Score
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May-17 SOABHP 1264 545 1,864,990 29 hrs
May-16 SOABHP 1175 559 1,812,278 29 hrs
May-15 SOABHP 1288 606 2,155,542 25 hrs
May-14 SOABHP 1443 663 2,724,267 31 hrs
May-13 SOABLP 572 257 401,177 25 hrs
May-12 SOABHP 1287 675 2,515,050 26 hrs
May-11 SO(A)ABLP 813 400 989,200 26 hrs
May-10 SOABHP 1050 409 1,220,456 27 hrs
May-08 SOABHP 1171 492 1,697,892 32 hrs
May-07 SO(A)ABHP 948 409 1,135,384 31 hrs
May-06 SOABLP 941 515 1,445,605 31 hrs
May-05 SOABLP 694 378 712,908 24 hrs
May-03 SOABLP 412 233 269,348 21 hrs
May-02 SOABLP 63 45 9,000
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