CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: KH6BE
Operator(s): KH6BE
Station: KH6BE
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: Honolulu, HI
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40: 15
20: 44
15: 30
10: 2
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Total: 91 Prefixes = 63 Total Score = 18,270
Club:
Comments:
Elecraft KX3 5W
Buddipole vertically-oriented dipole - 20, 15, 10
Balcony mounted Buddistick - 40
As usual, I operated most of the contest portable from a local beachfront park.
The first hour on 15 meters was my best. When my rate slipped about 0130Z, I
switched to 20. Things weren't very good there until around 0500, when I had 2
very good hours before shutting down around 0715Z.
In the middle of the night, I hooked the radio up to my very inefficient 40
meter Buddistick that I use for JT-mode QSO's, and spotted the stations I heard
to help the other HI ops. I decided to try to call some of the strongest west
coast stations, and was surprised when some of them actually replied. Those 90
minutes gave me some valuable 40m points/mults.
I returned to the park at 2230Z, and eeked out a few more 15 meter contacts,
but the band was beginning to sound warbly. I jumped over to 10 meters around
2315Z, heard a few JA's and was able to make 2 contacts there.
Back on 15, I could hear some of the big Caribbean stations quite well, but
none of them heard me. After only 2 more west coast contacts, I moved to 20,
and had very little luck there. It was about then that I saw that the latest
K-index report was 6. I realized that the geomagnetic storm was the reason for
the bad outing, and I knew it was going to be fruitless to continue with my
tiny QRP/omnidirectional antenna arrangement.
Despite the frustrations, I really enjoy testing the capabilities of low power
and simple antennas here in the mid-Pacific. And since I already have other
commitments in late June, it was kind of my early Field Day.
73 de Bob KH6BE
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