CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: W6QU
Operator(s): W8QZA
Station: W8QZA
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: San Diego
Operating Time (hrs): 18.0
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 7 4 4
40: 14 6 6
20: 31 15 16
15: 113 20 43
10: 33 12 12
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Total: 198 57 81 Total Score = 72,726
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
STATION W8QZA:
Radio: Elecraft K-2, 5 Watts.
Antennas:
10-15-20 Meters: 3 el Stepp-IR up 32 feet
40 Meters: DX-LB trap dipole up 30 feet
40-80 Meters: Butternut HF-2V Vertical with 3 radials
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The most frustrating thing about poor conditions is that I can call a station
that is 20 db over S-9 and they can continue to call CQ in my face. ...Wow. I
found several of these stations I the last 10 minutes of the contest which kept
me from hitting 200 Qs!
I have entered 115 major contests in the All-Band category since 1990. I have
had less than 200 Qs in only 7 of them. The last time was 2008 which also
happened to be in the CQ WWDX SSB. I had 191 Qs in that contest. I have to go
back to the 1900's when I was a contest beginner to find other AB DX contests
with less than 200 Qs!
N1MM clocks my op time at 18.0 hours. But that is terribly misleading. For
example, from 14:15 to 16:15 on Sunday AM I was at the rig all the time and
logged NO Qs! N1MM counts this as "Off time". I call it incredibly
frustrating time.
I did have several good Qs that made me trip the VOX with a cheer: B1Z on 15
was the best for me. It is very difficult for me to work BY in a contest.
Also getting RW0A for zone 18 in one call.
Other good Qs were D4Z, AH0BT, and a TK on 15, and D4C on 20.
The most frustrating was hearing XU7AJA calling blank CQs with a 5-9 sig, but
he just couldn't hear me.
My DXCC was 48 (58 last year) and my WAZ was 24 (23 last year). So while I
covered an even slightly larger area of the globe, I had considerably less
countries.
My European count was up quite a bit from last year, and 12.6% of my Qs were in
Europe compared to only 2% last year. And 75% of my Qs were off-continent,
...not bad for 5 watts.
Anyway, no rig problems and in the end it is always fun!
See you in the second half of the CQ WWDX CW contest. I will be coming home
from family Thanksgiving on Saturday.
...Bill W6QU - W8QZA
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